Let’s start with the bad news. Last Friday, Moody’s downgraded both Israel’s internal shekel-based credit rating and its external foreign currency-based rating by two notches – from A2 to ...

Fitch’s score of Israel, which kept the credit rating at A+ while dropping its outlook from stable to negative, can be looked at as a way of weighting the subjective and objective parts of an ...

The report compared Israel to Poland, which passed a similar judicial reform in 2016 and saw a downgrade to its credit rating, which was a major blow because national credit ratings can either ...

Moody's sent a warning to Israel on Wednesday just days before a scheduled rating review that a prolonged war with Hamas could drag down the country's credit score. Surprise attacks by Hamas at ...

the move stems from the escalation of Israel’s conflict with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah movement TEL AVIV, September 28. /TASS/. The Moody’s international credit rating agency has downgraded ...

First International Bank of Israel (FIBI) reported a 9% increase in net profit in 2024, boosted by 10% growth in loans and high interest rates on mortgages and other credit.

Israel’s central bank also highlighted that ratings agencies have lowered the country’s credit rating and left its outlook negative. While gross domestic product (GDP) has increased since its ...

Ronit Harel Ben Zeev is CEO of S&P Global Ratings Maalot - the Israeli branch of the international ratings agency. She is ...

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