US-listed shares of Israeli firms slide following Hamas attack

Tower Semiconductor

09/10/2023 10:57

** U.S.-listed shares of Israeli firms drop premarket
following a shock attack on Israel by Palestinian group Hamas
over the weekend 
    ** Israel's troops were still fighting to recapture its own
towns from Hamas gunmen on Monday, acknowledging the battle was
taking longer than expected more than two days after the
militants burst across the fence from Gaza on a deadly rampage
    ** US shares of Teva Pharmaceutical, the world's largest
generics drugmaker,  TEVA.N  drops 5.0%
    ** Solar inverter maker SolarEdge Technologies  SEDG.O 
slips 4.4%
    ** Tower Semiconductor  TSEM.O , which provides customers
with analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, down 5.1%; ad-tech
firm Perion Network  PERI.O  falls 4.7%
    ** ADRs of software provider Nice  NICE.O  drop 3.0%
    ** Self-driving technology maker Mobileye Global  MBLY.O 
off 5.7%, fintech company Pagaya Technologies  PGY.O  slides
7.0%
    ** Smaller biotech companies Gamida Cell  GMDA.O  and
Vascular Biogenics  VBLT.O  down 7.6% and 9.1%, respectively
    ** Cyber security firms with exposure to Israel also drop in
premarket trading

 (Reporting by Sruthi Shankar)
 ((sruthi.shankar@thomsonreuters.com;))