Investing.com – Israel stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Banking and Real Estate sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 declined 1.53%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Liveperson (TASE:LPSN), which rose 6.26% or 770 points to trade at 13070 at the close. Meanwhile, Energean Oil & Gas PLC (TASE:ENOG) added 3.98% or 103 points to end at 2690 and Shufersal (TASE:SAE) was up 2.48% or 55 points to 2270 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Delek Group (TASE:DLEKG), which fell 11.71% or 1510 points to trade at 11390 at the close. Delek Drilling LP (TASE:DEDRp) declined 8.76% or 32 points to end at 334 and Fattal 1998 Holdings Ltd (TASE:FATTAL) was down 7.43% or 1560 points to 19440.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 269 to 119 and 26 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 1.44% or 0.37 to $25.41 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 1.90% or 0.57 to hit $29.41 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.55% or 9.40 to trade at $1716.20 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.44% to 3.5290, while EUR/ILS rose 0.21% to 3.8187.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 100.220.