Investing.com – Israel equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Banking, Oil & Gas and Biomed sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 3.29% or 67 points to trade at 2103 at the close. Ormat Technologies (TA:ORA) added 1.80% or 330 points to end at 18680 and Paz Oil (TA:PZOL) was up 1.54% or 750 points to 49310 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TA:TEVA), which lost 2.77% or 245 points to trade at 8601 in late trade. Leumi (TA:LUMI) declined 1.28% or 29 points to end at 2232 and Gazit Globe Ltd (TA:GZT) shed 1.17% or 39 points to 3285.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 269 to 126 and 16 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.27% or 0.94 to $73.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 2.26% or 1.78 to hit $77.08 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.47% or 5.90 to trade at $1249.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.27% to 3.6403, while EUR/ILS rose 0.08% to 4.2668.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 94.03.