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| • The TA-25 index increased 0.3% over the week, bringing year-to-date increase to 1.0%.
• The TA-100 index decreased 0.4% over the week, bringing its year-to-date return to 0.6%.
• The TA Real Estate-15 and TA-Bank indices increased 1.7% and 1.5% respectively, while the TA BlueTech-50 decreased 4.1% over the week. Since the beginning of the year the BlueTech-50 increased 25%, while the TA Banks and the TA Real Estate-15 decreased 12% and 7% respectively.
• The government of Israel floated US 485 million bonds on the local market in this past week, bringing the year-to-date total of government bond issues to US $ 13.1 billion, as opposed to US $ 18 billion in the 2011 calendar year.
• Figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics indicate that the unemployment has slightly risen from 7.1% on May to 7.2% on June and from 6.9% on the first quarter of 2012 to 7.0% on the second quarter of the year.
• The NIS/dollar exchange rate on August 2 came to 3.977 NIS, a weekly decrease of 2.6% against the shekel, which brings the year-to-date appreciation of the dollar to 4.1% against the shekel.
• The NIS/Euro exchange rate on August 2 was 4.8818 shekel, a weekly decrease of 2.7% against the shekel. Since the beginning of the year, the Euro has depreciated 1.1% against the shekel.
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