{"id":137373,"date":"2025-02-10T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/investors-return-to-new-look-middle-east-but-trump-causes-some-concern\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:15:22","slug":"investors-return-to-new-look-middle-east-but-trump-causes-some-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/investors-return-to-new-look-middle-east-but-trump-causes-some-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Investors return to new-look Middle East, but Trump causes some concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137373\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A historic shake-up of the Middle East is starting to draw international investors, warming to the prospects of relative peace and economic recovery after so much turmoil. President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposal that the U.S. take over Gaza may have thrown a curveball into the mix, but the fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war,Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s ouster from Syria, a weakened Iran and a new government in Lebanon have fed hopes of a reset.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt, the region&#8217;s most populous country and a key negotiator in the recent peace talks, has just managed its first dollar debt sale in four years. Not too long ago it was facing economic meltdown.<br \/>\nInvestors have started buying up Israel&#8217;s bonds again, and those of Lebanon, betting that Beirut can finally start fixing its intertwined political, economic and financial crises. &#8221;The last few months have very much reshaped the region and set in play a very different dynamic in a best-case scenario,&#8221; Charlie Robertson, a veteran emerging market analyst at FIM Partners, said.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether Trump&#8217;s plan for Gaza inflames tensions again, he added. Trump&#8217;s call to &#8221;clean out&#8221; Gaza and create a &#8221;Riviera of the Middle East&#8221; in the enclave was met with international condemnation. Responding to the uproar, Egypt said on Sunday it would host an emergency Arab summit on February 27 to discuss what it described as &#8221;serious&#8221; developments for Palestinians.<br \/>\nCredit rating agency S&amp;P Global has signalled it will remove Israel&#8217;s downgrade warning if the ceasefire lasts. It acknowledges the complexities, but it is a welcome possibility as Israel readies its first major debt sale since the truce was signed.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Fertik, a U.S. venture capitalist and CEO of artificial intelligence firm Modelcode.ai, said the easing of tensions had contributed to his decision to open an Israeli subsidiary.<br \/>\nHe is eager to hire skilled local software programmers, but geopolitics have been a factor too.<br \/>\n&#8221;With Trump in the White House, no one doubts the United States has Israel\u2019s back in a fight,&#8221; he said, explaining how it provided predictability even if the war re-ignites.<\/p>\n<p>Having largely stayed away when Israel ramped up spending on the war, bond investors are also starting to come back, central bank data shows. Economy Minister Nir Barkat told Reuters in an interview last month that he will be seeking a more generous spending package focusing on &#8221;bold economic growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/new-look-middle-east-had-started-draw-investors-then-came-trump-2025-02-09\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/investors-return-to-new-look-middle-east-but-trump-causes-some-concern\/\">Investors return to new-look Middle East, but Trump causes some concern<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7942,5529,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-investors","tag-middle-east","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}