Israel stocks lower at close of trade; TA 35 down 1.35%

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At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 lost 1.35%.

The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Elbit Systems Ltd (TASE:ESLT), which rose 1.85% or 1,250.00 points to trade at 68,900.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM) added 0.71% or 110.00 points to end at 15,500.00 and ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TASE:ICL) was up 0.42% or 13.00 points to 3,074.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Nova (TASE:NVMI), which fell 5.04% or 1,730.00 points to trade at 32,620.00 at the close. Airport City Ltd (TASE:ARPT) declined 3.92% or 259.00 points to end at 6,350.00 and Azrieli Group Ltd (TASE:AZRG) was down 3.79% or 1,080.00 points to 27,380.00.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 325 to 169 and 26 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.75% or 1.54 to $86.24 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.98% or 1.86 to hit $92.14 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.57% or 27.25 to trade at $1,713.35 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was up 1.67% to 3.42, while EUR/ILS rose 0.45% to 3.42.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 1.16% at 109.36.