Venezuelan opposition leader Machado said those who assist a transition will need guarantees.

Amit Segal says Netanyahu’s Likud-led bloc holds 53 seats, the anti-Netanyahu bloc 48 and Arab parties 19 — all below the 61-seat threshold to form a government. Ra’am leader Mansour Abbas calls a minority government highly unlikely and says any deal would require negotiating with all Joint List factions, including Balad. Even if Avigdor Lieberman or Naftali Bennett switched to Netanyahu’s side, the bloc would reach only 60 seats, one short. Segal says the main remaining options are a Netanyahu coalition with Gadi Eizenkot’s Israel Justice Party (Yashar) or a new election; he adds the election result and the ‘Qatar incident’ point to the possibility of another vote in coming months, though coalition talks have about two months remaining.

US preliminary Q3 core PCE (annualized QoQ) 2.5% vs 2.4% expected; prior 3.3%.