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

TEL AVIV, Israel, February 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

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.

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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)
  • Equities - 197
  • Government bonds - 127
  • Corporate bonds - 79

AboutTASE 

Established in September 1935, the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange is Israel's sole securities exchange, offering an increasingly sophisticated range of products to investors, including equity, corporate bonds, treasury bills and notes, index products and derivatives.

International  

In recent years, TASE has enhanced its international presence, signing Memoranda of Understanding with the London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, NYSE-Euronext the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Toronto Stock Exchange.

For more information please contact: 

Idit Yaaron or Orna Goren, TASE, +972(076)8160405/6

Visit the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange's Website: http://www.tase.co.il

SOURCE Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE)

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