Thu: Positive week ends on strong rises

All five leading stocks rose today, headed by the big two banks.

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange rose today. The Tel Aviv 35 Index rose 1.30%, to 1,596.81 points; the Tel Aviv 125 Index rose 1.22%, to 1,654.69 points; and the BlueTech Global Index rose 1.63%, to 602.61 points. The TelBond 20 corporate bond index fell 0.05%, to 370.98 points. Turnover totaled NIS billion in equities and NIS billion in bonds.

For the week, the Tel Aviv 35 Index rose 3.8%. The index is up 6.5% for the year to date.

On the foreign exchange market, the representative shekel-dollar rate was set 0.21% lower, at NIS 3.220/$, and the representative shekel-euro rate was set 0.32% lower, at NIS 3.9500/€.

Bank Hapoalim, which released its 2020 financials today, led trading, and rose 1.04%. Bank Leumi rose 0.92%; Nice systems rose 1.93%; Enlight rose 5.04%; and Teva rose 1.78%.

Among today's prominent advancers were Matrix, up 7.62%, and BATM, up 7.51%. Opko Health fell 4.56% and Compugen fell 3.64%.

Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on March 11, 2021

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