Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Real Estate, Communication and Insurance sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 fell 1.26% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Elbit Systems Ltd (TA:ESLT), which rose 4.18% or 2030 points to trade at 50600 at the close. Meanwhile, Airport City Ltd (TA:ARPT) added 1.63% or 68 points to end at 4238 and Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) was up 1.10% or 250 points to 22970 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which fell 6.94% or 500 points to trade at 6700 at the close. OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) declined 6.74% or 104 points to end at 1438 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) was down 3.66% or 2000 points to 52700.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 268 to 115 and 21 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.50% or 0.31 to $61.48 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.50% or 0.33 to hit $65.18 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.40 to trade at $1317.00 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.15% to 3.4999, while EUR/ILS rose 0.15% to 4.2922.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 90.11.