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The rating company S&P announced last night that it had downgraded Teva's credit rating by one level - from BB to BB - which is a rating of junk bonds and 3 levels lower than an investment rating. S&P, which set a stable rating outlook, justified the downgrade by an increase in the legal risk that Teva faces (+ 0.66% 9.19) and its exposure to the payment of substantial sums in lawsuits related to claims of marketing policies that increased the narcotics-opioid epidemic that caused 400 deaths. -2017; Coordinated price and tender affair in the U.S. generic drug market and in the case of...

The year 2020 is opening up in the mortgage market: According to data published by the Bank of Israel, new residential mortgages in January totaled NIS 6.1 billion. This is an increase of 16.5% compared to January last year (NIS 5.2 billion). It is also up more than 6% in January compared to each of the past few months (except December, which was an all-time high). The data shows that the increase in mortgage recycling continues. Last January, the volume of recyclables stood at NIS 465 million, more than double that of January 2019. The figures also show that NIS 723 million was borrowed...

42% of households in Israel that own a bank account have been in an overdraft account for at least one month during the past year (2018). This represents no less than 1.1 million households, comprising 4 million persons. This is according to a survey of household financial assets, published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The survey, for the sixth consecutive year, has followed a fixed sample of about 4,000 households with about 12,000 persons over the years. According to the findings, about half (52%) of households with children have been over-drawn for at least one month in...

The head of the budget department in the Ministry of Finance, Shaul Meridor, announced his resignation on Sunday evening. "In recent months, and even more so in recent weeks, the ability to perform my duties as head of the budget department has become impossible," Meridor wrote to Minister Israel Katz in his resignation letter. "Unfortunately, you do not allow me and many other public servants in the various divisions of the Ministry of Finance and other government ministries to do what we know how to do - formulate, propose, analyze and criticize policy measures that will allow the...

The head of the Innovation Authority and the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, Dr. Ami Appelbaum, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Minister of Economy and Industry, Eli Cohen, in the framework of the WEF meeting in Davos, to allow Israel to take part in the global economic forum. At the beginning of the week, the government approved a proposal to promote participation in the C4IR-Centers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution network established by the WEF Forum on the regulation of innovative technologies based on international cooperation. The WEF...

Coalition Chairman Idit Silman has decided to resign from the coalition. The cracks were heard in the coalition for a long time. The dispute between Silman and Nitzan Horowitz over the chametz conference for hospitals. After the bomb was dropped on Wednesday by the leader of the retiring coalition, Idit Silman, the political system has three options. The first is to go to the polls - a move that is estimated to be preferred by opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud. Elections will be possible if Silman is followed by another retiree from the right, who will allow her and...

A series of fires across the country, which have been triggered by heavy and extreme heat loads throughout the country, caused damage estimated at millions of shekels, but hardly caused casualties. Near the Ramat Pinkas neighborhood in Or Yehuda, a fire broke out in an open area. Five houses were set on fire as a result of the fire near Ramat Pinkas. There was a concentration of effort to evacuate the population from the dangerous lines, and the firefighting forces exerted great efforts on several fronts. The Technion campus was partially evacuated following a fire that raged in Nesher

McDonald's Israel will soon offer customers a free product with their online orders, following a class action settlement approved today (Tuesday) by the Central District Court in Lod. The settlement, which resolves claims of misleading pricing, will allow online orderers to select one free item from three options: a half-liter bottle of water (NIS 13), a 330 ml can of Coke Zero (NIS 10), or regular-sized fries (100 grams, NIS 18)

On Monday, the Knesset committee unanimously approved the bill initiated by the committee's chairman, MK Eitan Ginzburg (blue and white), according to which the salaries of Knesset members will be frozen in 2021. The purpose of the bill is to prevent the salary of Knesset members from being updated by approx. NIS 5,000 gross per month. The Knesset will save about NIS 6 million as a result of the freezing of the salaries of the incumbent MKs, when this amount does not include the expected savings due to the freezing of the update on the benefits of former Knesset members. Knesset Member...