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Liquidity Shortage Getting Worse: Fed’s Repo Oversubcribed Even More As Funding Demand Jumps

For those hoping that the dollar shortage and overnight funding crunch would ease on the third day after the G/C repo rate exploded as high as 10%, we have bad news: it has not.

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95% of Vote Counted: Yisrael Beytenu Drops to 8 Mandates

PM Netanyahu said Israel has just two choices after Tuesday’s elections: “either a government led by me, or a dangerous government that relies on the Arab parties.”

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The Netanyahu Era’s Last Chapter Begins

His demeanor as much as his words made the outcome of the vote clear to everyone. While he neither claimed victory nor conceded defeat, his body language screamed that he knew that he had not won.

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Why is the NY Fed pumping billions into the money market?

The New York Federal Reserve Bank conducted money market interventions on Tuesday and Wednesday and planned another for Thursday morning … more 

See my post from yesterday here

Netanyahu Cancels Address to UN General Assembly

Netanyahu chose not to be out of the country next week at a time when President Reuven Rivlin is expected to release the official results of Tuesday’s (Sept. 17) election…

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Inspired by Israel’s Democracy, Palestinians Demand Abbas Hold Elections Too

Jonathan Elkhoury, a Lebanese Christian who now proudly lives in Israel, tweeted the surprising trend on Palestinian social media.

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