Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Biomed sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were OPC Energy Ltd (TASE:OPCE), which rose 1.76% or 63.00 points to trade at 3,643.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Energix (TASE:ENRG) added 1.66% or 20.00 points to end at 1,225.00 and Shapir Engineering Industry (TASE:SPEN) was up 0.99% or 31.00 points to 3,175.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Liveperson (TASE:LPSN), which fell 5.08% or 416.00 points to trade at 7,779.00 at the close. OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK) declined 4.40% or 51.00 points to end at 1,108.00 and Nova (TASE:NVMI) was down 3.38% or 1,220.00 points to 34,890.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 247 to 240 and 38 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 3.57% or 3.85 to $103.97 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 3.07% or 3.42 to hit $108.02 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.42% or 8.10 to trade at $1,941.60 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.50% to 3.19, while EUR/ILS unchanged 0.13% to 3.54.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 98.33.