Mon: TASE back on the rise
The big banks and Melisron led the market higher today but NICE Systems and Ormat slipped.
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange rose today. The Tel Aviv 35 Index rose 0.47%, to 1,596.69 points; the Tel Aviv 125 Index rose 0.31%, to 1,650.08 points; and the BlueTech Global Index rose 1.23%, to 593.23 points. The TelBond 20 corporate bond index rose 0.27%, to 371.52 points. Turnover totaled NIS 1.46 billion in equities and NIS 4.97 billion in bonds.
On the foreign exchange market, the Bank of Israel set the representative shekel-dollar rate 0.124% lower from Friday, at NIS 3.227/$, and the representative shekel-euro rate was set 0.660% lower, at NIS 3.896/€.
Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) led the market rising 1.12% on the day s biggest trading turnover. Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) rose 0.34%, Israel Discount Bank (TASE: DSCT) rose 1.53% and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (TASE:MZTF) rose 0.56%.