{"id":736128,"date":"2013-01-23T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/globalinvesting\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2013-01-23T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T17:08:09","slug":"israel-election-cuts-iran-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/736128","title":{"rendered":"Israel election cuts Iran risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli markets cheered election results today, with stocks rising 1 percent and the shekel edging up towards recent nine-month highs. Right-wing prime minister <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/23\/israel-election-idINDEE90L00X20130123\">Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory<\/a>, but his Likud party and ultra-nationalist allies Yisrael Beitenu lost ground to a new centrist party. Final results are expected tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Voters seem to have concentrated on domestic issues, including the state of the economy, but foreign investors tend to look at the geopolitical risks, and these appear to have lessened.<\/p>\n<p>Punters have been removing their bets on an air strike on Iran, particularly since the re-election of Barack Obama as U.S. President in November. The chance of a strike on Iran\u00a0by the U.S. or Israel by the end of the year\u00a0has fallen to 23.1 percent today, according to online exchange <a href=\"http:\/\/intrade.com\/\">Intrade.com<\/a>, compared with around 35 percent shortly after the U.S. election, and a high of 60 percent in October.<\/p>\n<p>Political risk analyst Alastair Newton at Nomura also thinks chances of a strike have diminished. He writes in a note today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although Israel\u2019s stated policy on Iran is unlikely to shift significantly whatever the make-up of the next government, securing the necessary support in the security cabinet for a strike now looks like a much harder task than would have been the case had Mr Netanyahu won a clear majority.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli markets cheered election results today, with stocks rising 1 percent and the shekel edging up towards recent nine-month highs. Right-wing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory, but his Likud party and ultra-nationalist allies Yisrael Beitenu lost ground to a new centrist party. Final results are expected tomorrow. Voters seem to have concentrated on domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-35v2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}