The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 1.20% to 1,613.38 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 0.98% to 1,411.02 points, and the BlueTech 50 Index rose 1.41% to 378.29 points. Turnover was NIS 512.7 million.
In the foreign currency market, futures trading pointed to the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate falling 0.18% from Friday's rate to NIS 3.966/$, and a 0.15% rise in the shekel-euro representative exchange rate to NIS 4.326/€.
In the bond market, the corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index was unchanged.
In the stock market, dual listed companies led the rises. Opko Health Inc. (NYSE: OPK; TASE: OPK) rose 3.52%, Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT) rose 3.34%, Perrigo Company (NYSE:PRGO; TASE:PRGO) rose 2.46%, and Ormat Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ORA; TASE: ORMT) rose 2.87%. Israel Chemicals (TASE: ICL: NYSE: ICL) rose 1% and parent company Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) rose 3.01%.
Osem Investments Ltd. (controlled by Nestle SA (SWX:NESN)) (TASE: OSEM) rose 2.3% after reporting its fourth quarter financials, and Frutarom Industries Ltd. (TASE: FRUT; LSE:FRUT; OTCBB:FRUTF) rose 3.62% for the largest rise on the Tel Aviv 25 Index.
Migdal Insurance and Financial Holdings Ltd. (TASE: MGDL) fell 0.99% for the biggest fall on the Tel Aviv 25 Index, on the day's largest trading turnover.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 29, 2015
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