Israel stocks lower at close of trade; TA 35 down 0.06%

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At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 0.06%.

The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Ormat Technologies (TASE:ORA), which rose 7.93% or 2,000.00 points to trade at 27,220.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) added 3.20% or 17.00 points to end at 547.50 and Airport City Ltd (TASE:ARPT) was up 2.40% or 146.00 points to 6,221.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Liveperson (TASE:LPSN), which fell 8.09% or 435.00 points to trade at 4,945.00 at the close. Nova (TASE:NVMI) declined 6.09% or 2,010.00 points to end at 31,000.00 and OPC Energy Ltd (TASE:OPCE) was down 2.78% or 100.00 points to 3,500.00.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 288 to 199 and 38 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.23% or 0.26 to $111.50 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.08% or 0.09 to hit $113.89 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.06% or 1.10 to trade at $1,820.10 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was up 0.61% to 3.46, while EUR/ILS unchanged 0.09% to 3.62.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 104.69.