The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today to within toughcing distance of last week's record. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 0.14% to 1,619.94 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 0.22% to 1,414.19 points, but the BlueTech 50 Index fell 0.26% to 377.30 points. Turnover was NIS 1.64 billion.
In the foreign currency market, the Bank of Israel set the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate at NIS 3.971/$, down 0.050% on the rate set last Friday, and set the shekel-euro representative exchange rate at NIS 4.302/€, down 0.394%.
In the bond market, the corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index fell 0.26%.
In the stock market, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (TASE: BEZQ) rose 2.53% and Israel Discount Bank (TASE: DSCT) rose 2.18%. Frutarom Industries Ltd. (TASE: FRUT; LSE:FRUT; OTCBB:FRUTF) rose 2.80% for the largest rise on the Tel Aviv 25 Index.
Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) fell 1.04% and Gazit-Globe Ltd. (NYSE: GZT; TASE: GZT; TSX: GZT) fell 1.7%. Israel Chemicals (TASE: ICL: NYSE: ICL) was down 0.71% and parent company Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) fell 2.64% for the biggest decline on the Tel Aviv 25 Index.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 30, 2015
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