TA-25
The TA-25 index increased 0.9% over the week and decreased 0.2% since the beginning of the year, after an increase of 10.2% for the whole of 2014.
TA-100
The TA-100 index increased 1.0% over the week and decreased 0.5% since the beginning of the year, after an increase of 6.7% for the whole of 2014.
TA Com
The TA Com index increased 6.2% over the week and decreased 10.1% since the beginning of the year, after increase of 10.4% for the whole of 2014.
Share Offerings
This week there was a rights issue by a biomed company amounting to US $3 million.
Since the beginning of the year, the business sector raised US $130 million in the share market on the TASE.
In 2014 the business sector raised US $2.1 through shares on the TASE.
Government Bonds
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) made a bond offering listed on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange this week amounting to US $0.2 billion, and since the beginning of the year the MoF raised US $1.2 billion.
In 2014 the MoF raised US $14.5 billion in bond offerings on the TASE.
Unemployment
The Central Bureau of Statistics released figures indicating that the unemployment rate increased from 5.6% in November to 5.7% in December 2014. The average rate of unemployment for 2014 was 5.9% compared with an average of 6.2% for 2013.
Sector Indices
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|
WEEK |
2015 |
|
TA Tech-Elite |
1.5% |
3.7% |
|
TA Banks |
-1.8% |
-3.9% |
|
TA Real Estate-15 |
4.5% |
7.9% |
Foreign Exchange
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|
WEEK |
2015 |
|
Dollar/NIS |
-1.2% |
-0.4% |
|
Euro/NIS |
-0.6% |
-6.3% |
|
|
|
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Facts & Figures
The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange features in January 2015:
- 471 companies listing equities.
- 592 Exchange Traded Notes.
- 29 series of government bonds.
- 75 Series of Institutional bonds.
- 599 series of corporate bonds.
- 1,328 mutual funds.
- Market Cap. (US$ billions)
o Equities - 197
o Government bonds – 127
o Corporate bonds – 79
