October 2014 30 - 26 Trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) during the last week of October was ended down in all the leading shares indices Continuation of issues in the share market
BOI Interest Rate The Bank of Israel left the interest rate unchanged at 0.25% .for November 2014
Composite Stateof-the-Economy Index The Bank of Israel released figures indicating that the Composite State-ofthe-Economy index rose 0.2% in September. The rate of growth of the Index is faster than its increase in previous months, when the index was affected among other things by negative repercussions of the "Protective Edge" .campaign
Share Offering This week there was one public offering in the share market and one rights issue .amounting to US $22 million Most of the amount, US $20 million, was raised in a rights issue by the A.D.O.
TA-25 The TA-25 index decreased 1.5% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 7.1%
.Group real estate company 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 It should be noted that for the second consecutive year there were significant share offerings by real estate companies amounting to US $0.5 billion – representing 60% of the total raised this year in public share offerings compared .with 50% in 2013
Government Bonds The Ministry of Finance (MoF) made a public bond offering listed on the TASE
TA-100 The TA-100 index decreased 1.3% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 5.7%
TA-Banks The TA-Banks index decreased 3.4% over the week, bringing year-to-date decrease to 3.7%
.amounting to US $0.3 billion Since the beginning of the year the MoF raised US $12.9 billion in bond offerings on the TASE, after raising US $18.2 billion .for the whole of 2013
Foreign Exchange 2014 8.8% 0.6%-
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Sector Indices WEEK 2014 11.1%- 0.8%3.7%- 3.4%2.5% 2.9%-
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About TASE
In recent years, TASE has enhanced its international presence, signing Memoranda of Understanding with the London Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, NYSE-Euronext the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and Toronto Stock
Established in September 1935, the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange is Israel’s sole securities exchange, offering an increasingly sophisticated range of products to investors, including equity, corporate bonds, treasury bills and notes, index
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Facts & Figures The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange features :in September 2014 .companies listing equities 473 .Exchange Traded Notes 590 .series of government bonds 32 .Series of Institutional bonds 73 .series of corporate bonds 614 .mutual funds 1,296 (Market Cap. (US$ billions Equities - 211 o Government bonds – 135 Corporate bonds - 88
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