Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Insurance, Biomed and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 lost 1.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Elbit Systems (TA:ESLT), which rose 2.55% or 950 points to trade at 38150 at the close. Avner L (TA:AVNRp) added 2.25% or 4.8 points to end at 218.3 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) was up 2.01% or 37 points to 1877 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Perrigo (TA:PRGO), which lost 18.96% or 8630 points to trade at 36880 in late trade. Teva (TA:TEVA) declined 2.58% or 560 points to end at 21150 and Discount (TA:DSCT) shed 0.54% or 3.5 points to 640.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 158 to 146 and 148 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.13% or 0.91 to $43.55 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 2.17% or 0.96 to hit $45.28 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.26% or 3.25 to trade at $1243.45 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.12% to 3.7590, while EUR/ILS rose 0.26% to 4.2515.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.36% at 94.40.