“Nochi Dankner must take tough decisions like Lev Leviev did. There’s a strong chance that IDB will need a debt settlement,” a top banker told “Globes” about the condition...

May.18, 2012 | 2:38 AM–The stock market’s week ended much as it traded throughout the week – in the shadow of the cell phone turmoil that has left the veteran telcom companies reeling...

17 May 12 17:10–The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index fell 1.98% to 1,081.74 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index fell 2.18% to 988.82 points, and the TechBlue 50 Index...

May 17, 2012 9:57 AM ET–Cellcom Israel Ltd. (CEL)’s bond yield soared to the highest in more than three years on bets growing competition on prices would hurt profitability at the nation’s biggest...

May.17, 2012 | 10:57 AM–Technology stocks have been all the rage this year. Comprising 38 local companies, the TA Technology Index, has risen 20 percent. Tech-loving investors can thank mainly Infiniband...

17 May 12 12:12–Egypt has resumed natural gas deliveries to Jordan, even as it has severed supplies to Israel and cancelled the gas sale contract with East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG), in which...

16 May 12 22:05–Sources inform ”Globes” that power tools and mechanical and electrical equipment giant Stanley Black & Decker Inc. (NYSE: SWK) is in advanced talks to acquire Wi-Fi...

16 May 12 09:03–Israel’s telecom operators suffered a second straight day of heavy falls in their share prices on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Tuesday and there were heavy losses in New...

16 May 12 10:27–The shekel is weakening against the dollar, but strengthening against the euro in morning inter-bank trading today. The euro is weakening in international markets as Greece heads...

May.17, 2012 | 5:52 AM–Exports of goods and services jumped 14% in the first quarter of the year, after a 0.2% drop in the last quarter of 2011. The recovery in exports led a to a 3% rise in the...

16 May 12 19:49–The flood of the big numbers for the 2013 budget is rising, and apparently setting off red warning lights at the Ministry of Finance. “We don’t have final numbers, but...

16 May 12 13:43–The Israeli economy grew by 3% on an annualized basis in the first quarter of 2012, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today. The growth rate was above the 2.5% growth predicted...

16 May 12 13:58–Israeli venture capital backed high-tech companies raised $165 million in the first quarter of 2012, half the amount raised in the preceding quarter and 52% less than in the corresponding...

05/15/2012 22:27–Israeli companies have much to gain from investing in private-sector development in poor countries, according to a senior representative of the World Bank Group’s International...

15 May 12 18:47–The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.9% in April, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported this evening. This is in line with expectations with most analysts predicting a rise...

15 May 12 14:57–The Israel Purchasing Managers Index compiled by Bank Hapoalim and the Israel Purchasing and Logistics Managers Association, rose by 6.9 points to 53.2 points in April 2012 from...

05.15.12, 07:03–Trade and Labor Minister Shalom Simhon announced the formation of a strategic committee to study the Israel’s diamond industry and work to increase its activities and productivity. Simhon,...

May 15, 2012–The Finance Ministry has drafted new legislation requiring all future state budgets to span two years, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz recently told members of the Knesset Finance Committee. The...

What if industrial building managers could see exactly how much energy their building is using, where in the building that energy is going, and how much it is costing them at every moment to use that...

Noble Energy is to hook up two small natural gas fields to Israel’s central gas supply to avoid electricity shortages over the summer due to the cut in Egyptian supplies, a spokesman said on Wednesday. Israel...

May 17, 2012 05:43 AM ET–At the same time EMC was in Israel trying to strike a deal to buy XtremeIO, NetApp and Dell were also there vying for the flash storage array maker’s intellectual...

5/17/2012 01:54–A huge oil discovery could be on the horizon in California, The Jerusalem Post has learned. The Golden State is already home to five of the 12 largest oil fields in the US, and the...

May.16, 2012 | 5:25 AM–The four leading investors in Israel’s communications industry have lost NIS 353 million over two days after new cell phone companies started business. The biggest loser...

May.16, 2012 | 5:25 AM–Yossi Maiman’s Ampal-American Israel Corp. is writing off the entire value of its 12.5% stake in EMG, the company that sold Egyptian natural gas to Israel before Cairo...

May.16, 2012 | 12:41 AM–A new system to rank higher education around the world has placed Israel in 19th place, out of 48 countries, using a method that looks at countries in their entirety, rather...

15 May 12 16:21–Pluristem Therapeutics Ltd. (Nasdaq:PSTI; DAX: PJT: PLTR) today reported that the cardiac function in a diabetic-induced diastolic dysfunction in animals improved following PLacental...

May 15, 2012–Israeli psychologist at the University of Chicago Boaz Keysar and his researchers found in a recent study that economic decision making appears to be more rational when conducted in...