Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Weekly Review: 2-6 November 2014

TEL AVIV, Israel, November 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

TA-25  

The TA-25 index increased 1.9% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 9.2%  

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TA-100  

The TA-100 index increased 1.5% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 7.3%

TA-Com 

The TA-Com index increased 1.3% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 10.0%.

TA MidCap-50  

The TA-Banks index decreased 1.5% over the week, bringing year-to-date decrease to 10.3%

Share Offering 

This week there were two public offerings in the share market amounting to US $1.7 million.

Since the beginning of 2014 the business sector raised US $1.9 billion through share offerings on the TASE, compared with US $1.7 billion raised for the whole of 2013.

ETN Offerings 

This week one new compound ETN was issued on a combination of US share indices, joining the 71 new ETNs issued since the beginning of the year.

Currently there are 591 ETNs traded on the TASE, of which 108 are compound notes.

Government Bonds 

The Ministry of Finance (MoF) made a public bond offering listed on the TASE amounting to US $0.2 billion.

Since the beginning of the year the MoF raised US $13.1 billion in bond offerings on the TASE, after raising US $18.2 billion for the whole of 2013.

TASE Launches New Index: Tel Bond-Floating  

On November 2, the TASE launched the "Tel Bond-Floating" index. The index comprises unlinked floating interest rate corporate bonds. The index includes 17 bond series with a total capitalization of US $3.6 billion.

Unemployment 

The Central Bureau of Statistics released figures indicating that the unemployment rate increased in September to 6.2%, compared with 6.4% in the previous month and an average of 6.3% for 2013. In addition, the unemployment rate increased to 6.4% in the third quarter of 2014 compared with 6.1% for the second quarter of the year.

Sector Indices

                     WEEK
                            2014
    TA Bluetech      0.9% (10.3%)
    TA Banks         1.0%  (2.7%)
    TA Real
    Estate-15        1.3%   3.9%

Foreign Exchange

   

                WEEK
                       2014
    Dollar/NIS  0.1%   9.1%
    Euro/NIS   (0.4%) (0.9%)

Facts & Figures 

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange features in October 2014:

• 473 companies listing equities.
• 590 Exchange Traded Notes.
• 31 series of government bonds.
• 73 Series of Institutional bonds.
• 609 series of corporate bonds.
• 1,298 mutual funds.
• Market Cap. (US$ billions)
  • Equities - 204
  • Government bonds - 133
  • Corporate bonds - 86

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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