Elecciones Israel 🇮🇱 🗳️: 56,7% escrutado * Se requieren 61 escaños para conformar gobierno. * El bloque de Netanyahu permanece en los mismos 55 escaños del boletín anterior y sin un camino para lograr mayoría. *El bloque de Eisenkot disminuye 1 escaño frente al boletín anterior, mientras que los partidos árabes aumentan 1. *Ni Netanyahu ni Eisenkot tienen cómo alcanzar los 61 escaños con sus partidos aliados. El único camino para formar un gobierno es que Eisenkot pacte con los partidos árabes para sacar a Netanyahu. De los contrario pasarán las semanas y podría llegarse a un escenario de repetir las elecciones en el primer semestre de 2027. Entre tanto, Netanyahu seguiría al mando.

Sentiment is one thing, and market performance is yet another. I think if whatever has happened in small and midcap in Oct 2026 (the relative underperformance) continues for some more time, then sentiment for even domestic retail investors will start to worsen. The jury is still out on this. As far as this being the worst sentiment ever for India, few occasions come to mind. First, in 2008, the mortgage crisis culminated in the global financial crisis emanating from the US. Their market declined 30%. Our market declined over 60%, A mini credit crisis of our own, especially in the real estate sector, followed by capital outflows and it was further followed by terror attacks in Mumbai and India's largest corporate scandal (i.e., Satyam). I heard some experts express utter dismay, "Why should FIIs ever return to India?" On a 1 trillion market cap, 16 billion of selling resulted in a complete meltdown. There is no domestic market, pathetic governance and there is no free float. It's a one-way street. FIIs have learned the hard lessons. They will never invest back into India. Second, in 2013, India was already dealing with telecom spectrum allocation-related scams (2G), the coal scam, and what was called phone banking. That was followed by yet another corporate scandal, which is related to the National Spot Exchange, and ended with India being classified as part of the Fragile Five because of poor external macro and lack of competitiveness of the economy. In August 2013, Nifty was a full 1,500 points lower than the peak made in Jan 2008, and the rupee went all the way down to the 67-69 range from about 50 a couple years earlier. Finally, in 2020, in March, when the markets declined with the onset of COVID-19, India was the worst-performing market in the initial decline, nearly 40%. What was the narrative? - Extremely humid tropical climate - High density of population - Extremely poor medical infrastructure - Poor hygiene and social protocols India would be the worst-affected economy in the world. We all know too well what happened after each of these occasions. I have seen India being called a basket case at least three to four times in my 27 years. I am not too proud about it or sanguine about it, but it serves investors well not to get carried away by extreme narratives.

98% of the refugees admitted to the U.S. under Trump have been white South Africans.

Infosys cut guidance and analysts named captive centres as a threat. On the hiring side it's already visible: senior engineers and delivery heads are choosing GCCs over services firms. What can a services firm offer a leader that a GCC can't?

A few days ago, Flavio must have thought himself on the precipice of enormous hemispheric power, backed by a huge mandate in the legislature and allies in the states. He was going to run roughshod over the Supreme Court and release his coup-plotting father from his prison sentence. Now, facing his own corruption investigation, Flavio reportedly fled by foot into exile and his dad may never get out of house arrest. Elections have consequences.

Regardless of which war criminal becomes prime minister, Palestinians living under Israeli apartheid will continue to face genocide, land theft, and erasure. We cannot accept lies, excuses, or half-measures from our leaders. We must impose a full arms embargo and sanctions until Palestine is free.

Israeli Exit Polls. Extremely unlikely that a government is formed with these numbers.

The line of the “sold out” Hasan Piker event. ID was required to enter the event. The irony.