Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 rose 0.50%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which rose 2.71% or 1940 points to trade at 73400 at the close. International (TA:FTIN) added 2.71% or 149 points to end at 5642 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) was up 2.55% or 44 points to 1769 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Mylan NV (TA:MYL), which lost 4.24% or 590 points to trade at 13330 in late trade. Bezeq (TA:BEZQ) declined 1.49% or 10.0 points to end at 660.0 and Frutarom (TA:FRUT) shed 1.33% or 270 points to 20030.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 226 to 124 and 91 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 1.10% or 0.58 to $53.33 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.85% or 0.47 to hit $55.70 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.11% or 1.35 to trade at $1214.25 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.09% to 3.7865, while EUR/ILS fell 0.22% to 4.0728.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 100.07.