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The government will meet soon with employers and the Histadrut to discuss how a strengthening shekel is affecting the export industry, Prime Minister…

DUBLIN — Ireland rejected speculation that it was seeking a rescue before a Nov. 16 meeting of European finance ministers as Germany pushed for aid…

The Bank of Israel on Tuesday lowered its growth forecast for 2011 to 3.8 percent from 4% previously, on expectations of a slowdown in exports and…

Despite strong local growth data, the Bank of Israel left interest rates for September unchanged, as inflation fell below the mid-point of the target…

China passed Japan as the world's No. 2 economy in the second quarter Monday, although at $5 trillion in annual GDP China is still far behind the…

Shares at Comverse Technology plunged 33 percent over the weekend after the world’s largest maker of voice-mail software warned about a cash squeeze…

The unemployment rate fell to 7.2 percent of the civilian labor force in the first quarter of the year as the economy grew, the Central Bureau of…

The global market meltdown at the end of last week sent local stocks to a three-month low on fears that the sparks of the debt crisis in Greece will…

US communications providers Comcast and AT&T are staging a war against the regulator’s national broadband plan to control all Internet service in the…

The economy expanded 4.4 percent in annual terms in the fourth quarter last year, driven by strong growth in exports and private consumption, the…

Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer left thebenchmark interest rate unchanged, after raising it in the previous twomonths, as inflation…

Deutsche Bank on Tuesday won the bidding for 5 percent of thegovernment's stake in Israel Discount Bank, the country's third-largestbank, in a deal…

The Bank of Israel's interventions in the foreign-exchange market were exceptional responses to the global crisis intended to keep the shekel in…

Israel's four-week stock rally is poised to stall and the benchmark TA-25 Index will take until the second half of 2010 to rebound to its record…

The economy has started to recover from the global crisis earlier than forecast, boosting tax revenues and bringing government spending to below…

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz met with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in Washington on Monday in an effort to intensify ties and strengthen…

The inflation rate fell for a second consecutive month in August, dropping to 3.1 percent, easing pressure on Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer…

Israeli inflation, already above target, willspeed up in the coming months as Bank of Israel Governor StanleyFischer buys dollars in an effort to…

The Bank of Israel's increased dollar purchases boosted the dollar-shekel exchange rate by 3.3 percent on Tuesday to NIS 3.86, but the ability of the…

Israel's benchmark TA-25 Index will climb another5 percent and the shekel will increase 2% after breaching theirso-called resistance levels,…