Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Weekly Review: 31 August - 4 September 2014

TEL AVIV, Israel, September 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

TA-25  

The TA-25 index increased 1.4% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 7.1%.

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TA-100  

The TA-100 index increased 1.7% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 6.5%.

TA MidCap-50 

The TA MidCap-50 index increased 5.2% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 0.8%.

Share Offerings 

This week there was only one share offering, amounting to US $2 million, by a biomed company.

Since the beginning of 2014 the business sector raised US $1.7 billion through share offerings on the TASE, similar to the amount raised for the whole of 2013.

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 $11.2 billion in bond offerings on the TASE, after raising US $18.2 billion for the whole of 2013.

TASE launches options on the shares of "Bezeq" and "Perrigo"  

On August 28 the TASE launched options on the shares of "Bezeq" and "Perrigo".

These options join eight options on shares already traded (Teva, Poalim, Leumi, Israel Chemical Industries, Mizrahi Tefahot, Discount, Ratio, Avner), that were launched since the beginning of trading in share options in 2009.

Sector Indices

                     Week
                           2014
    TA Bluetech-50   1.8% -5.9%
    TA Banks         0.8%  0.6%
    TA Real
    Estate-15        3.8%  6.5%

Foreign Exchange

               WEEK   2014
    Dollar/NIS 0.4%   3.2%
    Euro/NIS   -0.7% -2.3%

Facts & Figures 

The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange features in August 2014:

• 473 companies listing equities.
• 594 Exchange Traded Notes.
• 33 series of government bonds.
• 72 Series of Institutional bonds.
• 600 series of corporate bonds.
• 1,290 mutual funds.
• Market Cap. (US$ billions)
  • Equities - 212
  • Government bonds - 140
  • Corporate bonds - 90

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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