Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Insurance, Financials and Banking sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 added 0.52%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Shapir Engineering Industry (TASE:SPEN), which rose 2.32% or 74 points to trade at 3260 at the close. Meanwhile, Maytronics (TASE:MTRN) added 2.20% or 159 points to end at 7382 and OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK) was up 2.14% or 22 points to 1048 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nice Ltd (TASE:NICE), which fell 1.37% or 1010 points to trade at 72850 at the close. Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) declined 1.10% or 6.0 points to end at 537.0 and Ormat Technologies (TASE:ORA) was down 0.05% or 10 points to 21240.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 285 to 211 and 36 ended unchanged.
Shares in Shapir Engineering Industry (TASE:SPEN) rose to all time highs; gaining 2.32% or 74 to 3260.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.27% or 1.15 to $91.36 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.54% or 1.41 to hit $92.80 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.07% or 1.30 to trade at $1898.50 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was up 0.45% to 3.2155, while EUR/ILS rose 0.65% to 3.6474.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 95.920.
Source : Investing.com
