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| • The TA-25 index gained 2.0% over the week, bringing its year-to-date return to 6.2%.
• The TA-100 index gained 1.8% over the week as well, bringing its year-to-date increase to 8.2%.
• The TA BlueTech-50 indexed increased 5.3% while the TA Banks and TA Real Estate-15 indices lost 1.7% and 1.5% respectively.
Year-to-date, the TA BlueTech-50 increased 22% while the TA Real Estate-15 and TA Banks indices gained 10% and 8% respectively.
• The Government of Israel floated US $400 million bonds on the local market, bringing the year-to-date total of government bond issues to US $6.2 billion.
• Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released March inflation figures, indicating that the CPI index increased 0.4% following two months during which the index was unchanged.
CBS figures also indicate that GDP increased 3.5% (annualized) during the second half of 2011, after rising 5.2% in the first half of that year.
• The NIS/ US dollar exchange rate on 19 April came to 3.762 a weekly increase of 0.1% against the shekel. Since the beginning of the year, the dollar has depreciated 1.5% against the NIS.
• The NIS/Euro exchange rate on 19 April came to 4.9346, and remained unchanged relative to the previous week. Since the beginning of the year, the Euro has depreciated 0.1% against the NIS.
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