The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 0.78% to 1,244.64 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 0.52% to 1,105.82 points, and the TechBlue 50 Index edged up 0.01% to 312.70 points. Turnover was NIS 984.4 million.
A late rally boosted the TASE, despite losses on European markets and at the opening on Wall Street.
In the foreign currency market, the Bank of Israel set the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate at NIS 3.693/$, up 0.33% on Friday's rate, and set the shekel-euro representative exchange rate at NIS 4.776/€, down 0.61%.
In the bond market, long-term Shahar unlinked shekel government bonds were unchanged and long term Galil CPI-linked government bonds fell by up to 0.1%. The corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index fell 0.33%.
In the stock market, NICE Systems Ltd. (Nasdaq: NICE; TASE: NICE) and EZchip Semiconductor Ltd. (Nasdaq: EZCH; TASE:EZCH) rose 2.5% and 3%, for the biggest gains among Tel Aviv 25 shares, while Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:MLNX; TASE:MLNX) fell 1.6% for the biggest loss among Tel Aviv 25 shares.
Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL) fell 0.3% on the day's biggest turnover of NIS 82 million.
Oil Refineries Ltd. (TASE:ORL) fell 1.1%, after posting a net loss for 2012, and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (TASE:MZTF) fell 0.7% on its financials. DS Brokerage said that it still prefers the banks over its peers.
Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) rose 2.1% and Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) rose 2%.
Partner Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: PTNR; TASE: PTNR) rose 2.3% and Cellcom Israel Ltd. (NYSE:CEL; TASE:CEL) and Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Co. Ltd. (TASE: BEZQ) both rose 1.7%.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on March 18, 2013
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