The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index fell 0.30% to 1,712.61 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index fell 0.32%, to 1,478.61 points and the BlueTech Index fell 0.06%, to 356.86 points. The TelBond 20 corporate bond index rose 0.04%, to 319.83 points. Turnover totaled NIS 2.11 billion.
The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 0.6% on the week, after rising 0.5% last week, and 16.9% since the beginning of the year.
On the foreign exchange market, the Bank of Israel set the shekel dollar representative rate down 0.026% from yesterday's rate at NIS 3.781/$, and the representative shekel-euro rate was set down 0.999%, at NIS 4.143/€.
In the market, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) fell 2.4% on profit taking on the day's biggest trading volume, after its strong gains earlier in the week following its $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergen's generic division. Frutarom Industries Ltd. (TASE: FRUT; LSE:FRUT; OTCBB:FRUTF) fell 1.61% and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (TASE: BEZQ) fell 0.61%.
Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) fell 0.62% and its energy exploration and production units Avner Oil and Gas LP (TASE: AVNR.L) and Delek Drilling Limited Partnership (TASE: DEDR.L) fell 0.77% and 0.10%, respectively.
Gaining ground today were Azrieli Group Ltd. (TASE: AZRG), which rose 3.37% for the biggest rise on the Tel Aviv 25 Index, and Elbit Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: ESLT; TASE: ESLT), which rose 1.96%. Israel Chemicals (TASE: ICL: NYSE: ICL) rose 2.76% and parent company Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) rose 2.7%.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on July 30, 2015
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