The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) rose today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index rose 0.60% to 1,352.96 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index rose 0.62% to 1,220.36 points, but the BlueTech 50 Index fell 0.09% to 326.25 points. Turnover was NIS 764.6 million.
The TASE rose to a new record today, in line with gains on Wall Street on Friday.
In the foreign currency market, options pointed to a 0.06% drop in the shekel-dollar exchange rate, compared with Friday's representative rate, to NIS 3.557/$, but to a 0.50% gain in the shekel-euro exchange rate to NIS 4.827/€.
In the bond market, long-term Shahar unlinked shekel government bonds and long term Galil CPI-linked government rose. The corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index rose 0.12%.
In the stock market, Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) rose 2.2% for the biggest gain among Tel Aviv 25 shares, and Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) rose 1.2%. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) rose 1.1% on the day's biggest turnover of NIS 34.9 million. Opko Health Inc. (NYSE: OPK; TASE: OPK) corrected downward 7% from Thursday's 11.8% jump, for the biggest loss among Tel Aviv 25 shares.
Osem Investments Ltd. (TASE: OSEM) fell 1.2%, after publishing its financials. Its food company peer on the index, Strauss Group Ltd. (TASE:STRS), rose 0.7%.
On the Tel Aviv 100 Index, Evogene Ltd. (NYSE: EVGN; TASE:EVGN) rose 10.1%, after the underwriters in its NYSE offering exercised all their over-allotment options.
Elsewhere in the market, Camtek Ltd. (Nasdaq: CAMT; TASE:CAMT) rose 27.9%, after denying rumors that it was an acquisition target.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on November 24, 2013
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