Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Weekly Review: 9-13 November 2014

TEL AVIV, Israel, November 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

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TA-25  

The TA-25 index decreased 0.4% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 8.8%  

TA-100  

The TA-100 index decreased 0.5% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 6.8%

TA-Technology 

The TA-Technology index increased 1.9% over the week, bringing year-to-date decrease to 1.2%.

TA Biomed  

The TA-Biomed index decreased 4.7% over the week, bringing year-to-date decrease to 37.8%

Share Offering 

This week there were four offerings in the share and convertibles market amounting to US $53 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.

Corporate Bonds 

This week there were three bond offerings by the business sector amounting to NIS 88 million. The largest offering was made by the real estate company -Airport City amounting to US $56 million.

Since the beginning of the year the business sector raised US $13 billion through bond offerings, of which US $3.7 billion on the "TACT Institutional" system, after raising US $10.1 billion 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 $13.3 billion in bond offerings on the TASE, after raising US $18.2 billion for the whole of 2013.

Sector Indices

   

                     WEEK
                             2014
    TA Bluetech       0.5%  -9.9%
    TA Banks         -2.8%  -5.5%
    TA Real
    Estate-15        -0.9%   3.0%

Foreign Exchange

   

               WEEK
                      2014
    Dollar/NIS 0.7%   9.8%
    Euro/NIS   0.2%  -0.7%

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

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: http://www.tase.co.il

SOURCE Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE)