Weekly Review: 15 - 19 July 2012 Trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) during the third week of July ended in mixed trend for leading share price indices.

• The TA-25 index increased 1.1% over the week, bringing year-to-date losses to 0.6%.

• The TA-100 index increased also 1.1% over the week and gained 0.5% since the beginning of the year.

• The BlueTech- 50 index increased 5.8% over the week. The TA-Bank and TA Real Estate-15 indices decreased 5.9% and 1.5% respectively. Since the beginning of the year the TA BlueTech- 50 increased 27%, while the TA Banks and the TA Real Estate-15 decreased 12% and 5% respectively.
 
• The government of Israel floated US $ 440 million bonds on the local market in this past week, bringing the year-to-date total of government bond issues to US $ 12.1 billion, as opposed to US $ 18 billion in the 2011 calendar year.

• Figures released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics indicate that the CPI index decreased 0.3% in June. In the first half of 2012, the CPI index increased 1.0%.

• Figures released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics indicate that the GDP increased 2.7%, in annual terms, in the first quarter of 2012, after increasing 3.1% in the last quarter of 2011 and a 3.2% growth in the third quarter of last year.

• The NIS/dollar exchange rate on July 19 came to 4.035 NIS, a weekly increase of 1.7% against the shekel, which brings the year-to-date appreciation of the dollar to 5.6% against the shekel.

• The NIS/Euro exchange rate on July 19 was 4.9641 shekel, a weekly increase of 2.5% against the shekel. Since the beginning of the year, the Euro has appreciated 0.5% against the shekel.