Israel stocks higher at close of trade; TA 35 up 0.15%

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At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 added 0.15%.

The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Liveperson (TASE:LPSN), which rose 2.66% or 490 points to trade at 18890 at the close. Meanwhile, Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd (TASE:BEZQ) added 2.65% or 8.4 points to end at 325.4 and Ormat Technologies (TASE:ORA) was up 2.45% or 690 points to 28860 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Perrigo (TASE:PRGO), which fell 1.72% or 240 points to trade at 13730 at the close. Leumi (TASE:LUMI) declined 1.45% or 32 points to end at 2168 and Energean Oil & Gas PLC (TASE:ENOG) was down 1.42% or 62 points to 4292.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 266 to 178 and 25 ended unchanged.

Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.67% or 0.43 to $64.44 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.55% or 0.37 to hit $67.89 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.38% or 6.55 to trade at $1723.45 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was down 0.12% to 3.3207, while EUR/ILS rose 0.09% to 3.9594.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 91.832.