Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Weekly Review: July 26-30, 2015

• Trading on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) on the fourth week of July, was marked a mix trendin the leading share indices; 
• Further offerings in the bond market

TA-25 index 

The TA-25 index increased 0.6% over the last week, and increased 16.9% since the beginning of the year, after an increase of 10.2% for the whole of 2014.

TA-100 index 

The TA-100 index increased 0.8% over the last week, and increased 14.7% since the beginning of the year, after an increase of 6.7% for the whole of 2014.

TA-BIOMED 

The TA-BIOMED index decreased 5.3% this week. Since the beginning of the year the index decreased by0.3%, after a decrease of 33.9% in 2014.

Corporate Bonds  

This week there were three bond offerings to the public on TASE by the business sector amounting to US$ 270 million.

The largest offering was made by Dexia Israel bank amounting to US$ 158 million.

Since the beginning of the year the business sector raised US$ 9.9 billion through bonds on TASE.

Share Offerings 

The biomed company Pluristem whose shares are traded also on NASDAQ, raised US$ 17 million this week in a public share offering in US.

Since the beginning of the year, the business sector raised US$ 0.8 billion in shares on TASE.

Government Bonds 

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) made a bond offering this week listed on the TASE, amounting to US$ 0.1 billion.

Since the beginning of the year, the MoF raised a total of US$ 6.1 billion in bond offerings on TASE.

BOI Interest Rate 

The Bank of Israel left the interest rate unchanged at 0.1% for August 2015.

Sector Indices

                     WEEK  2015

    TA Tech-Elite    -2.7% 10.6%
    TA Banks         0.4%  18.7%
    TA Real
    Estate-15        0.4%  14.3%

Foreign Exchange 

                WEEK    2015

    Dollar/NIS  -1.2%  -2.8%
    Euro/NIS    -0.9%  -12.3%

Facts & Figures 

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange features in June 2015:

• 469 companies listing equities.
• 629 Exchange Traded Notes.
•   31 Series of government bonds.
•   72 Series of Institutional bonds.
• 590 series of corporate bonds.
• 1,352 mutual funds.
• Market Cap. (US$ billions)
  • Equities - 226
  • Government bonds - 130
  • Corporate bonds - 83