Investing.com – Israel equities were higher at the close on Sunday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Biomed sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 25 rose 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the TA 25 were OPKO Health Inc (TA:OPK), which rose 5.84% or 358 points to trade at 6483 at the close. ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TA:ICL) added 2.52% or 68 points to end at 2770 and Avner L (TA:AVNRp) was up 2.31% or 7.0 points to 309.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Teva (TA:TEVA), which lost 2.06% or 480 points to trade at 22870 in late trade. Azrieli Group (TA:AZRG) declined 1.50% or 250 points to end at 16390 and Nice (TA:NICE) shed 1.18% or 300 points to 25100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 164 to 159 and 133 ended unchanged on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $60.54 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.40% or 0.27 to hit $66.97 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.13% or 1.60 to trade at $1223.60 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.19% to 3.8098, while EUR/ILS rose 0.09% to 4.3620.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.12% at 93.29.