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| Trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) in the second week of July was marked by gains in all leading indices, in keeping with the global trend.
The TA-25 index which gained 1.9% over the week is now 2.9% lower from its level at the beginning of the year, after an increase of 75% rate of return attained in 2009. The TA-100 index which rose 2% this week is now lower by 2.9% from its level at the beginning of this year. This follows an increase of 89% in 2009.
The Tel Tech-15, index of large technology companies, influenced by trading on NASDAQ, stood out this week with an increase of 4.6%. The Finance index and the Estate-15, index of large real estate companies' shares, increased 2.2% and 0.5%, respectively.
The "Israel Corporation ltd" whose shares are included in TA-25 index, has raised US $267 million in a public bond issue. Two real estate companies raised US $160 million this week in bond issues. The total of public and institutional bond issues from the beginning of this year comes to US $6 billion, compared with US $9.3 billion raised in the entire 2009.
The Israeli treasury raised US $250 million this week in a local government bond issue, bringing the 2010 total to US $7.8 billion after total of US $17.4 billion raised in 2009.
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