Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Weekly Review: 21-25 December 2014

Trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) during the fourth week of December ended down in all leading share indices; The largest declines this week were in oil and gas shares of 9%

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Dec 25, 2014, 11:13 ET

TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

TA-25
The TA-25 index decreased 1.2% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 10.2%

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TA-100
The TA-100 index decreased 1.4% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 7.1%

TA-Oil & Gas
The TA- Oil & Gas index decreased 8.6% over the week, bringing year-to-date decrease to 14.6%

ETN Offerings
This week a new compound ETN was issued on a combination of US share indices.
Currently there are 591 ETNs traded on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, of which 110 compound ETNs.

Government Bonds
The Ministry of Finance (MoF) did not make any public bond offering listed on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange this week. Since the beginning of 2014 the MoF raised US $14.5 billion in bond offerings on the TASE, after raising US $18.2 billion for the whole of 2013

Unemployment
The Central Bureau of Statistics released figures indicating that the unemployment rate decreased in November to 5.6%, compared with 5.7% in the previous month, and an average of 6.3% for 2013.

Composite State-of-the-Economy Index
The Bank of Israel released figures indicating that the Composite State of-the-Economy Index rose 0.1% in November.
The rate of growth of the index in the last four months is at a slightly higher level than the rate for March-July, but is relatively lower than last year.

Sector Indices

	WEEK	2014
TA Bluetech	-0.4%	-5.5%
TA Banks	-1.8%	-6.6%
TA Real Estate-15	-1.2%	1.2%

Foreign Exchange

	WEEK	2014
Dollar/NIS	-0.5%	12.6%
Euro/NIS	-1.1%	-0.2%

Facts & Figures
The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange features in November 2014:

473 companies listing equities.
588 Exchange Traded Notes.
31 series of government bonds.
74 Series of Institutional bonds.
607 series of corporate bonds.
1,310 mutual funds.
Market Cap. (US$ billions)
- Equities - 203
- Government bonds – 129
- Corporate bonds – 82

About TASE
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: www.tase.co.il

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