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Dror Marmor, Globes: Azrieli takes new Tel Aviv business district without a fight

Published on May 23 2013 // Opinion
22 May 13 19:49, Dror Marmor–Welcome to the Azrieli Republic at the entrance to Tel Aviv. The man who built what has become the city’s most conspicuous icon the three famous Azrieli towers, has taken care in recent years to leave everyone around him small-scale. Opposite the towers is land...

Stella Korin-Lieber, Globes: No-one is looking after our assets

Published on May 21 2013 // Opinion
20 May 13 18:55–1. The Government Companies Authority has had its day, and the time has come to close it. To break it up. There have been no privatizations for ages, and if such plans do materialize, such as the idea that appears in the economic plan to float 20% of Rafael Advanced Defense Systems...

Shlomi Cohen, Globes: Investors like new SanDisk direction

Published on May 20 2013 // Opinion
19 May 13 15:02–Stock indices continue to break records, but, in contrast to the euphoria of the technology stock bubble of 1999, or the “irrational enthusiasm” of which then Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan spoke in 1996, this time round, the rises are accompanied by several...

Aaron Katsman, Seeking Alpha: Israeli Budget Cuts? Not Exactly

Published on May 15 2013 // Opinion
Published May 10, 2013–So after many zigzags and leaks to the media we finally get to see Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s budget. The headlines are screaming about the draconian budget cuts. In fact the Finance Ministry refers to this being the “biggest spending cut ever imposed.” Well, let’s...

Avi Temkin, Globes: Fischer stings shekel speculators

Published on May 14 2013 // Opinion
Published 13 May 13 16:51–Officially, today’s unexpected measures by Governor of the Bank of Israel Prof. Stanley Fischer are intended to combat what is known as the Dutch disease – a structural strengthening of the exchange rate following the discovery of natural resources. The direct...

Roy Goldenberg, Globes: Facebook may keep Waze independent

Published on May 13 2013 // Opinion
9 May 13 16:04–If Waze Ltd. is acquired, Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) will close its third deal in Israel, one more than Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) each, but fewer than the seven Israeli acquisitions by Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT). Facebook made its first Israeli...

Efraim Chalamish, JPost: Israel’s energy market

Published on May 09 2013 // Opinion
05/08/2013 20:46–The recent off-shore gas discoveries in Israel are game changing. Said discoveries can raise Israel’s Gross Domestic Product, help to reduce national fiscal deficit, position Israel as an independent energy producer and exporter, and improve the country’s geo-strategic status....

Shlomi Cohen, Globes: Big announcements from small companies

Published on May 06 2013 // Opinion
5 May 13 19:21–When Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) reclaims its role as the engine pulling the Nasdaq train then new records are very quickly broken as occurred last week. Since it published its results two weeks ago Apple’s share price has risen 11%, and today it is once again the company with...

Gershon Baskin, JPost: Encountering Peace: The Israeli economic breakout

Published on May 02 2013 // Opinion
05/01/2013 21:59–By all accounts, Israel is an economic success story. Despite the global financial threats, the Israeli economy is still in the black and more healthy than the economies of Greece and Cyprus, its nearest European neighbors, and much more healthy than Spain and Ireland at the other...

Shlomi Cohen, Globes: Apple to ripen in the fall

Published on May 01 2013 // Opinion
29 April 13 18:28–As predicted by some, after Apple (AAPL) got the bad news out of the way the bad guidance for the June quarter its share price rose by nearly 7% last week. The jump was also due to the fact that the company operated its “doomsday weapon”, its huge, $145 billion cash...
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