Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Communication, Biomed and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 fell 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL), which rose 2.41% or 37 points to trade at 1572 at the close. Discount (TA:DSCT) added 2.03% or 16.0 points to end at 806.0 and OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK) was up 1.63% or 67 points to 4182 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Teva (TA:TEVA), which lost 4.91% or 690 points to trade at 13360 in late trade. Mylan NV (TA:MYL) declined 4.40% or 610 points to end at 13260 and Perrigo (TA:PRGO) shed 3.35% or 1100 points to 31780.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 208 to 149 and 86 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.80% or 0.93 to $50.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.57% or 0.86 to hit $54.08 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.25% or 2.95 to trade at $1173.55 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.12% to 3.8064, while EUR/ILS fell 0.40% to 4.0862.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 100.38.