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Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Weekly Review: 1-5 February 2015

Date 05/02/2015

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

 

 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

 

 WEEK

2015

Dollar/NIS

-1.2%

 -0.4%

Euro/NIS

-0.6%

 -6.3%

 

 

 

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