The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 0.77% to 1,339.62 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 0.96% to 1,219.32 points, and the BlueTech 50 Index rose 1.30% to 343.26 points. Turnover was NIS 988.8 million.
The TASE rose today, while European markets and Wall Street were closed for New Year's Day.
In the foreign currency market, options pointed to a 0.16% drop in the shekel-dollar exchange rate, compared with yesterday's representative rate, to NIS 3.466/$, and a 0.32% drop in the shekel-euro exchange rate, to NIS 4.766/€.
In the bond market, long-term Shahar unlinked shekel government bonds and long term Galil CPI-linked government bonds fell. The corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index fell 0.16%.
In the stock market, Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) rose 4% for the biggest gain among Tel Aviv 25 shares. Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) rose 1.3% on the day's biggest turnover of NIS 31.4 million and Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) rose 2.1%.
Tamar partners Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) and Isramco Ltd. (Nasdaq: ISRL; TASE: ISRA.L) both rose, by 2.4% and 1.2%, respectively, on a new gas purchasing agreement.
Opko Health Inc. (NYSE: OPK; TASE: OPK) fell 1.2% for the biggest loss among Tel Aviv 25 shares.
Elsewhere in the market, Summit Real Estate Holdings Ltd. (TASE: SMT) rose 5.5%, after announcing that it would refloat subsidiary Summit Germany Ltd. on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).
IDB Holding Corp. Ltd. (TASE:IDBH) fell 2.2%. Elbit Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: EMITF; TASE: EMIT) fell 2.3%, after the court approved the debt settlement for the company.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 1, 2014
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