Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Banking, Financials and Insurance sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 1.0005%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Liveperson (TASE:LPSN), which rose 29.9400% or 1797.00000000 points to trade at 7800.00000000 at the close. Meanwhile, OPC Energy Ltd (TASE:OPCE) added 3.5600% or 130.00000000 points to end at 3780.00000000 and Maytronics (TASE:MTRN) was up 2.9400% or 203.00000000 points to 7100.00000000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Israel Corp (TASE:ILCO), which fell 4.8900% or 8220.00000000 points to trade at 160000.00000000 at the close. ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TASE:ICL) declined 3.8700% or 141.00000000 points to end at 3499.00000000 and Mizrahi Tefahot (TASE:MZTF) was down 3.6800% or 460.00000000 points to 12050.00000000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 286 to 207 and 31 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 10.0900% or 9.65999985 to $105.37999725 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 8.7100% or 8.52999973 to hit $106.50000000 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.8300% or 34.79999924 to trade at $1935.50000000 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.9673% to 3.23580003, while EUR/ILS fell 0.0695% to 3.59299994.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.8400% at 97.51000214.