Debt Desk — Debt Desk — October 28, 2026: An Unsettled Vote and a Selective Credit Market
Good morning. It is Wednesday, October twenty-eighth.
The national brief begins in Israel, where an election meant to decide the future of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instead opened what may be weeks of coalition bargaining.
With half the votes counted early this morning, Netanyahu’s Likud party led with 20.6 percent, while Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party had 16.8 percent. But neither major bloc appeared close to the sixty-one seats needed for a majority in the Knesset. Exit polls put the Netanyahu and Eisenkot camps at roughly fifty-one seats each, with Arab-led parties holding about…
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