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| • The TA-25 index gained 4.1% over the week, but is still 11.9% lower than its beginning-of-the-year level, following a 16% increase in 2010.
• The TA-100 index, which gained 3.7%, is 13.7% lower than at the beginning of the year, following a 15% increase in 2010.
• The TA Banks index climbed 6.2% while the TA BlueTech-50 and TA Real Estate-15 indices increased 4.9% and 3.7%, respectively.
• The Government of Israel floated government bonds on the local market equaling US $480 million. Since the beginning of the year, the government has raised US $13.7 billion in government bond issues, as opposed to US $15.2 billion in the 2010 calendar year.
• The Bank of Israel announced that it is leaving the November interest rate at 3%, after lowering the rate in October, for the first time since January 2009, by 0.25%.
• In addition the Bank of Israel released that the Composite State-of-the-
Economy Index increased some 0.3% in September and stated that in the Last months Israel's economy has continued to expand, albeit at a slower pace than during the first quarter of 2011.
• The NIS/dollar exchange rate on 27 October came to 3.62, a weekly decrease of 0.7% against the shekel, which brings the year-to-date appreciation of the dollar to 2.0%, after depreciating 6% in 2010.
• The NIS/Euro exchange rate on 27 October came to 5.1031 up 1.7% over the week. The Euro has appreciated 7.7% against the NIS since the beginning of the year, after depreciating 12.9% in 2010.
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