The Standard & Poors (S&P) credit rating agency upgraded its credit rating for Israel from A+ to AA- (stable outlook), ushering Israel into an exclusive group of 15 nations that hold the prestigious AA ratings (AA+, AA and AA-). The upgrade was announced on Friday, August 3rd after S&P changed …
Israeli High-Tech Start-Ups Investable Through Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
For decades Israel’s high-tech start-up scene has been considered one of the most exciting and impressive in the world, on par with Silicon Valley, and producing game-changing technologies that continue to push the innovative envelope. Israel ranks #2 for venture capital availability, and is ranked #3 in the world for …
Building a Nation: Israel’s Booming Real Estate Market
When author Mark Twain visited the Land of Israel (then still called Palestine) in 1867, he penned impressions of what he witnessed in his book “Innocents Abroad”: “A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. We reached Tabor safely. We never …
Israeli Innovation – Changing the World
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 …
Profit from Israel’s Desalination Tech
“I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.” (Isaiah 41:18) The Land we’ve been given here is a dry land. It is mostly desert, and it’s difficult to grow crops in the arid …
Israeli stock market – outperform Wall Street
Macro-economic Analysis: Indicators suggest the Israeli stock market is set to outperform Wall Street in the coming years By Wise Money Israel Analyst In the past 5 years, the U.S. stock index S&P 500 increased approximately 105%. The Dow Jones Industrial Index returned about 86%. However, during that time period, …
Strong Rally on Israeli Stock Market
Israel’s stock market is hitting new highs, surpassing Wall Street by far in 2015. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange leading stock index (Tel Aviv 25) has returned 16% thus far in 2015, and doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The S&P 500 U.S. index returned only 3% YTD in 2015. It’s …