Israel stocks higher at close of trade; TA 35 up 1.84%

Israel stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Communication, Insurance and Biomed sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 rose 1.84%.

The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Next Vision Stabilized Systems (TASE:NXSN), which rose 9.26% or 1,500.00 points to trade at 17,700.00 at the close. Meanwhile, OPC Energy Ltd (TASE:OPCE) added 7.78% or 672.00 points to end at 9,309.00 and Nova (TASE:NVMI) was up 7.39% or 7,220.00 points to 104,910.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Azrieli Group Ltd (TASE:AZRG), which fell 3.17% or 1,100.00 points to trade at 33,620.00 at the close. NICE Ltd (TASE:NICE) declined 3.08% or 970.00 points to end at 30,550.00 and Ormat Technologies Inc (TASE:ORA) was down 2.53% or 760.00 points to 29,240.00.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 320 to 149 and 87 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.92% or 2.65 to $88.18 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 3.57% or 3.51 to hit $94.81 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.35% or 54.85 to trade at $4,129.75 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was down 0.95% to 3.16, while EUR/ILS fell 0.50% to 3.54.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.37% at 101.80.