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You may be watching the current financial situation with concern, due to growing inflation, tremendous money printing, and talk of the U.S. dollar (USD) potentially losing its world reserve currency status that it has had since 1944. Since January 2020, the U.S. has printed nearly 80% of all USD in …
Fitch Ratings, one of the “Big Three” international credit rating agencies alongside Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s, has upgraded Israel’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings by one notch to A+ from A, with a stable outlook. Fitch’s announcement was released on Friday, November 11th and now has Israel ranked …
Can a tiny startup-nation less than 70 years old, with less than 8 million residents, change the world? Israel is clearly saying “yes”. An enormous number of inventions and innovations have come out of Israel in recent decades, more than from many larger, established nations combined. Israel is shining its …
Many investors want to invest in innovative Israeli startup companies before they go public. But some don’t have the high amounts of capital necessary to participate in a venture capital fund, and others don’t want the high risk associated with investing in a small private company with little regulatory oversight …
Investing in Israeli stocks and bonds is done on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), Israel’s single national exchange, though accounts at Israeli brokerages and banks. This is where Israeli corporations raise capital to finance investments and activities, and where the government bring the public into its companies as they are …
Mazor Robotics stock price has grown over 500% in the past four years. The reason? There are over 500,000 spinal surgery with implants each year in the U.S. alone. Many are done freehand, without computer technology nor guided robotics systems. While spinal surgery is clearly medical science, it is also an art. One …
Many clients and readers ask us for a quick overview of the Israeli economy, stock and bond markets. Why is investing in Israel a sound economic decision, they ask. Here is a your 2015 factsheet, with some extraordinary truths you may have never known about Israel. Economy Gross Domestic Product …
The largest Dutch pension fund is now boycotting Israeli banks over settlement ties. Citing policy of ‘social responsibility’, PGGM, the Netherlands’ largest pension fund management company, decides to divest millions of euros from Israeli banks that have West Bank branches and offer financing for settlement construction. PGGM’s investments in Israeli banks amount …
IBI Brokerage and Investments Ltd. is again Israel’s preferred broker, according to the second “Globes” annual survey of brokerages. 2012 was a difficult year for investment houses, which had to deal with falling profits. Nonetheless, the industry’s powerhouses held their own. The “Globes” brokerage survey found that IBI Brokerage won 60% …
Global Finance magazine graded the world’s top Central Bankers for 2012, and named the heads of the Central Banks of six countries as the World’s Best Central Bankers. Israel’s Central Bank Governor, widely acclaimed Professor Stanley Fischer, was named for the second year in a row as one of the six World’s …
