Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Communication, Oil & Gas and Biomed sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 fell 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which rose 3.96% or 2650 points to trade at 69550 at the close. Bazan Oil Refineries Ltd (TA:ORL) added 3.03% or 4.7 points to end at 159.8 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) was up 1.96% or 29 points to 1509 in late trade.
Biggest losers included OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which lost 3.70% or 85 points to trade at 2215 in late trade. Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) declined 2.65% or 560 points to end at 20540 and Delek Group (TA:DLEKG) shed 1.48% or 1250 points to 83360.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 257 to 153 and 91 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.44% or 0.21 to $47.19 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.61% or 0.30 to hit $49.17 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 1.10% or 14.08 to trade at $1296.78 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.05% to 3.5432, while EUR/ILS rose 0.16% to 3.9918.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 96.60.