ISRAELI SENIOR OFFICERS: NO REASON TO STRIKE IRAN BEFORE US ELECTIONS - YNET

Senior Israeli military officers, as reported by Ynet, reportedly assessed that there is no operational reason to launch a strike on Iran before the upcoming US elections. The transmission channel here runs through geopolitical risk premia and oil supply expectations: a lower perceived probability of near-term Israel-Iran kinetic conflict tends to compress the risk premium embedded in crude benchmarks and in Gulf sovereign and shipping-linked assets. Iran's sovereign debt and rial-denominated instruments, along with Israeli assets such as the shekel and Tel Aviv equities, are the most directly exposed, since they price in conflict-escalation scenarios most acutely. Traders should watch the next OPEC+ production communique and weekly US crude inventory data from the EIA, as either could shift how markets interpret the reduced strike-timing risk.

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