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Israel's dollar bonds slide, CDS widen as regional tensions escalate
Jun 12, 2025 4:12 AM

LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - The cost of insuring

Israel's debt against default rose on Thursday, and its bond

prices slid, as regional security concerns spiked and the

country's own government wobbled.

Israel's five-year credit default swaps rose 7 basis points

(bps) from Wednesday's close, to reach 105 bps, according to S&P

Global Market Intelligence, while its international dollar bonds

slid more than 1 cent.

The 100-year issuance, which matures in 2120, shed more than

1.3 cents before retracing some of the loss to be bid at 67

cents on the dollar, Tradeweb data showed.

The United States restricted government employees' travel

outside certain Israeli cities, and pulled some personnel out of

the Middle East, due to escalating tensions with Iran.

Israel's parliament rejected early on Thursday a preliminary

vote to dissolve itself, giving the ruling coalition led by

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more time resolve its worst

political crisis yet and avoid a ballot that polls suggest he

would lose.

Markets broadly moved into risk-off mode, with oil prices

spiking and fixed income instruments in other emerging markets

also coming under downward pressure.

Egypt's dollar bonds shed as much as 1.5 cents, with the

2040 maturity bid at 76.48 cents on the dollar.

"Clearly it is Iran that is at the centre of this and the

possibility that you see a strike from the U.S. or Israel," said

Paul McNamara, an investment director of emerging market debt

for investment firm GAM, with market moves signalling a shift

from no risk of a U.S. strike to a very low risk.

"There is a lot of scope for things to get a whole lot

worse if we do see a military strike and a sustained attack,"

McNamara said.

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