Stock market

Investors see economic upside for Israel if opposition beats Netanyahu in upcoming elections

Since the October 7 Hamas attacks in 2023, the Tel Aviv stock market has soared 130%, far outpacing Wall Street's 80% gain, while the shekel has climbed 25%, one of the world's strongest performances.

THE TEL AVIV stock exchange. Although Israel’s economy emerged triumphant from the war, with full employment and one of the world’s strongest currencies still intact, this does not mean it can spend a tenth of its GDP on defense, the writer maintains.
Boaz Levy speaking at ManpowerGroup Israel's annual customer conference at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa.

Israel Aerospace Industries initial share offering will happen within a year, board chairman says

Cut off from much of the international banking system, the Central Bank of Iran has increasingly turned to capital controls and foreign-currency restrictions to contain the economic fallout.

Iran's stock market climbs despite US blockade, energy shortages, collapsing currency

Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Study: Stock market falls as traders bet on no clear election winner


Leumi partnering with Aspire for tech employee stock plans

Leumi partners with Aspire for a trust firm (51% stake) to manage tech employee stock options & M&A trust services, entering a field long dominated by private investment houses.

Bank Leumi.

Your Investments: One sea, many portfolios

Building the right investment portfolio starts with understanding your goals, time horizon, and tolerance for risk, not following the latest stock market trends or investment tips.

AMERICAN WRITER Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) travels with US soldiers on their way to Normandy for the D-Day landings, in his capacity as war correspondent, in 1944.

Nike to Starbucks: The quiet collapse on Wall Street

While tech giants and AI drive Wall Street to record highs, major consumer brands are showing a troubling picture: Nike has sunk to a 12-year low, and McDonald's is fighting for customers.

McDonald's.

Israeli airline stocks surge nearly 9% following flydubai hijacking incident

Israir also reported severe loss of value in its stock over the last month, falling from NIS 1.60 on September 9 to NIS 1.44 reported on Tuesday, just before the recent jump registered on Wednesday.

El Al plane takes off at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, May 24, 2026.

UK stocks fall as lack of progress in US-Iran talks lifts oil prices

Oil prices rose more than 4% after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis fired missiles at Saudi Arabia and diplomatic talks between the US and Iran showed little sign of progress.

Futures-options traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange's NYSE American (AMEX) in New York City, US, September 16, 2026.

Stock crashed: Company that concealed information from investors slapped with fine

Epitomee Medical fined NIS 1.85m for hiding data that ended a major Nestle deal, crashing its stock after misleading reports on clinical success.

A clinical success, a hidden failure, and a NIS 1.85 million price tag for misleading the market.

China's Moonshot AI negotiates Microsoft, Amazon, Google over Kimi K3 revenue sharing - report

IPO-bound Moonshot is seeking up to a 30% share of revenue generated from K3-related services on Microsoft's Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud.

Founder of Moonshot AI Yang Zhilin delivers a speech at a conference of 2026 Zhongguancun forum, in Beijing, China March 25, 2026.

Israel's trillion-dollar dream depends on fixing its capital and institutional problems - opinion

The reform agenda should focus on one objective: making Israel a place where companies can remain, scale, and compound.

High-tech office complex

Anthropic nears $6 billion deal for Israeli AI startup Decart, creating new billionaires

Decart's shareholders believe they can produce a higher return from shares of a company like Anthropic, which is planning to launch the largest IPO in history, at a company valuation of $2 trillion.

The founders of Decart, Dean Leitersdorf and Moshe Shalev

Doubled in one month: The trend shaking up the stock market

Tokenized stock holders doubled to 1.3 million as trading volume soared to billions, as crypto platforms race to disrupt Wall Street's old infrastructure.

Blockchain.