Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the , and sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Tel Aviv, the added 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the were Nova (TASE:), which rose 2.76% or 2,100.00 points to trade at 78,100.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:) added 1.89% or 8.00 points to end at 430.50 and Leumi (TASE:) was up 1.88% or 66.00 points to 3,579.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TASE:), which fell 2.91% or 45.00 points to trade at 1,500.00 at the close. Israel Corp (TASE:) declined 2.58% or 2,020.00 points to end at 76,380.00 and NICE Ltd (TASE:) was down 2.38% or 1,560.00 points to 64,000.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 267 to 182 and 91 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 4.47% or 3.45 to $73.69 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 4.34% or 3.51 to hit $77.42 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.87% or 23.10 to trade at $2,642.90 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 0.65% to 3.76, while EUR/ILS fell 0.70% to 4.13.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 102.33.