The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 0.31% to 1,208.66 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 0.26% to 1,064.45 points, but the TechBlue 50 Index fell 0.09% to 328.62 points. Turnover was NIS 877.7 million.
The leading TASE indices rose today in line with gains on European markets and at the opening on Wall Street, despite the failure to reach a ceasefire and today's bus bombing in Tel Aviv.
In the bond market, long-term Shahar unlinked shekel government were unchanged and long-term Galil CPI-linked government bonds ranged between losses of 0.2% and gains of 0.1%. The corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index rose 0.03%.
In the foreign currency market, the Bank of Israel set the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate at NIS 3.916/$, down 0.16% on yesterday's rate, and set the shekel-euro representative exchange rate at NIS 5.016/€, down 0.24%.
In the stock market, Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL) fell 1.7% on the day's biggest turnover of NIS 77 million, after reporting lower revenue and profits for the third quarter. Its parent company, Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO), fell 1.9%.
Other Tel Aviv 25 companies that published their financials today were Azrieli Group Ltd. (TASE: AZRG), which rose 2.3%; Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE:ORL), which rose 2.3%; Strauss Group Ltd. (TASE:STRS), which rose 1.1%; and Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR; TASE: PTNR), which rose 3.1%, despite sharply lower revenue and profits, for the biggest gain among Tel Aviv 25 shares.
NICE Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE; TASE: NICE) fell 2.6% for the biggest loss among Tel Aviv 25 shares, and EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (Nasdaq: EZCH; TASE:EZCH) fell 1.7%, but Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:MLNX; TASE:MLNX) rose 0.5%.
Banks were split today, with Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) up 0.5% and Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) down 0.2%.
Mid-Cap listed Commtouch Software Ltd. (Nasdaq: CTCH; TASE: CTCH) rose 14.8%, two days after announcing the acquisition of a German company. Partner's parent company Scailex Corporation (TASE: SCIX; Pink Sheets:SCIXF) jumped 24.6%.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 21, 2012
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