Haaretz Editorial: A collapsing pyramid
Sep.03, 2012 | 2:02 AM–A series of mistakes by businessman Nochi Dankner, combined with the global financial crisis, the slowing local economy and regulatory changes affecting monopolies have left the...
View ArticleShlomi Cohen, Globes: EZchip’s new processor will be unique
3 September 12 18:52–Investors went into the long Labor Day weekend after closing a third successive month of rises. The Nasdaq index is the strongest riser so far this year, up 18%, and was the best...
View ArticleDavid Rosenberg, Haaretz: Let the pyramids of Israel fall
Sep.05, 2012 | 9:08 AM–It would certainly be premature to announce the death of Nochi Dankner’s IDB group, but if the time does arrive, there will be no reason to mourn it. Nor would there be any...
View ArticleNurit Tsur, Haaretz: Looking for work? Start a business
Sep.06, 2012 | 9:38 AM–”I have 10 years of experience, an academic degree and I’ve always been an outstanding employee who brought a lot of clients and money to his employers. So why can’t I find...
View ArticleAmiram Barkat, Globes: Misleading investors is much worse than a dry hole
6 September 12 17:40–A dry hole is no disaster; failures are part and parcel of the oil and gas business. But the disappointment at the Myra 1 well pales into insignificance in comparison with the...
View ArticleAmiram Barkat, Globes: Misleading investors is much worse than a dry hole
A dry hole is no disaster; failures are part and parcel of the oil and gas business. But the disappointment at the Myra 1 well pales into insignificance in comparison with the failure of the licensees...
View ArticleStella Korin-Lieber, Globes: Israel not Gazprom must control its gas
9 September 12 19:51–Is it a honey pot or a honey trap? This is the tough question confronting the Leviathan gas field owners (Noble Energy Inc. (NYSE: NBL), Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) and Ratio...
View ArticleDoron Tsur, Haaretz: The lessons Israel can learn from Lincoln and Washington...
Sep.11, 2012 | 5:07 AM– Don’t expect any financial bonanzas for some years. The world’s economic problems are too huge. We need to think how to limit the damage: while the financial pain can’t be...
View ArticleAdrian Filut, Globes: Paying for Netanyahu’s fiscal sins
10 September 12 17:59–Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz is today organizing a conference in New York to attract overseas investors to Israel because investors are moving out of the country. The crisis...
View ArticleShlomi Cohen, Globes: The conference hopefuls
A few days before Apple (AAPL) unveils the new iPhone, Intel (INTC) has given us a reminder that, this year too, it is excluded from the smartphone and tablet festivities. Its great optimism about the...
View ArticleMeir Heth, Haaretz: Turning greedy at Teva
10:02 13.09.12–I assume that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries’ shareholders were surprised to learn, in the report sent them before a general assembly, that they were being asked to approve bloated,...
View ArticleMarketWatch (Benzinga.com): Studying the Israel ETF’s Post-Conflict Performances
Sept. 18, 2012, 10:01 a.m. EDT–Israel may be a developed economy, but it is surrounded by emerging and frontier markets. More importantly, Israel sits in a politically volatile corner of the globe....
View ArticleHaaretz Editorial: Israel needs a leaner public sector
Sep.19, 2012 | 1:26 AM–The problems facing part of the private sector are receiving lots of attention these days. But the public sector faces even larger problems, even though they are better...
View ArticleJPost Interviews Panel of Experts: A look back and a look ahead
In light of the new year, the Jerusalem Post assembled a panel of experts to discuss predictions for the Israeli economy. The local economy is going through difficult, even turbulent, times. The end of...
View ArticleEmily Amrousi, Israel Hayom: A winning economic formula
September 20, 2012–Thai kickboxing lessons for children at 65 shekels ($17) per month; zoology lessons at NIS 45 shekels ($12) per month; ballet lessons at NIS 60 shekels ($15) per month; Pilates for...
View ArticleTamar Koblenz, Globes: Is Elsztain pouring money down the IDB drain?
Nobody underestimates Nochi Dankner’s efforts in bringing an investor into IDB Holding Corp. Ltd. (TASE:IDBH), in which he is the controlling shareholder, or his connections in the business. Even so,...
View ArticleEytan Avriel, Haaretz: Which Israeli firms would be too big to fail?
Sep.24, 2012 | 7:46 AM–When should the government, on behalf of the public, rescue a business on the brink of collapse? This question has made its way back into the public discourse in, of all places,...
View ArticleShlomi Cohen, Globes: Boosts for SanDisk and Radware
Assuming nothing dramatic happens in the last week of September, on Friday, the Nasdaq index will close a fourth successive month of rises. So far this year, the index has risen no less than 22%, led...
View ArticleRavit Hecht, Haaretz: The Steinitz syndrome
Sep.25, 2012 | 3:23 AM–”The media tried to fan the flames of the social protest and even I began to believe that there was one,” declared Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz. He was trying to rearrange the...
View ArticleIsrael Harel, Haaretz: To survive, Maariv must regain its moral compass
Sep.27, 2012 | 2:18 AM–Yes, the publishers are to blame. As are the managers. But what about the editors? And the reporters? After all, they are the ones who produced a product whose popularity has...
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