Israel shares higher at close of trade; TA 35 up 2.60%

Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Sunday, as gains in the Banking, Real Estate and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 2.60% to hit a new all time high.

The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 35 were NICE Ltd (TASE:NICE), which rose 8.81% or 5,790.00 points to trade at 71,500.00 at the close. Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM) added 6.86% or 1,110.00 points to end at 17,280.00 and Mizrahi Tefahot (TASE:MZTF) was up 3.90% or 610.00 points to 16,260.00 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (TASE:TEVA), which lost 0.89% or 58.00 points to trade at 6,478.00 in late trade. OPC Energy Ltd (TASE:OPCE) declined 0.87% or 27.00 points to end at 3,066.00 and Nova (TASE:NVMI) shed 0.79% or 600.00 points to 74,900.00.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 345 to 114 and 80 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.74% or 1.98 to $70.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 2.33% or 1.76 to hit $73.87 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.41% or 11.00 to trade at $2,694.80 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was up 0.81% to 3.75, while EUR/ILS unchanged 0.00% to 4.01.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.50% at 104.89.