The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index fell 0.37% to 1,447.85 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index fell 0.58% to 1,269.71 points, and the BlueTech 50 Index fell 0.70% to 328.77 points. Turnover was 2.18 billion.
The Tel Aviv 25 Index fell 1.2% in January and 0.5% on the week.
In the foreign currency market, the Bank of Israel set the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate at NIS 3.926/$, down 0.482% on yesterday's rate, and set the shekel-euro representative exchange rate at NIS 4.44/€, down 0.952%.
In the bond market, both long-term Shahar unlinked shekel government bonds and long term Galil CPI-linked government bonds rose. The corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index rose 0.16%.
In the stock market, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) fell 3.41% for the biggest fall on the Tel Aviv 25 Index on the day's largest trading turnover. Perrigo Company (NYSE:PRGO; TASE:PRGO) fell 2.78%, NICE Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE; TASE: NICE) fell 2.82%, and Kenon Holdings Ltd (TASE:KEN: NYSE: KEN-WI) fell 3.38%.
In positive territory Migdal Insurance and Financial Holdings Ltd. (TASE: MGDL) rose 4.93% for the day's largest rise on the Tel Aviv 25 Index and Melisron Ltd. (TASE: MLSR) ended its first month on the blue chip index by rising 3.43% today.
Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE:CEL; TASE:CEL) and Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR; TASE: PTNR) continued to lose ground, falling 1.05% and 2.12% respectively.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 29, 2015
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