Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Communication and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 added 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were Israel Corp (TA:ILCO), which rose 3.00% or 1880 points to trade at 64500 at the close. Teva (TA:TEVA) added 2.51% or 330 points to end at 13490 and Mylan NV (TA:MYL) was up 2.33% or 300 points to 13170 in late trade.
Biggest losers included OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which lost 3.33% or 141 points to trade at 4094 in late trade. Perrigo (TA:PRGO) declined 1.17% or 370 points to end at 31290 and Paz Oil (TA:PZOL) shed 0.69% or 430 points to 62140.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 222 to 140 and 80 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.69% or 0.84 to $50.61 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.51% or 0.80 to hit $53.80 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.37% or 4.35 to trade at $1173.15 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.25% to 3.8169, while EUR/ILS fell 1.01% to 4.0501.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.91% at 101.19.