As the owner of the New York Rangers, the New York Knicks, Madison Square Garden itself and Radio City Music Hall, MSG shares are likely to benefit as the Rangers pushdeep into the playoffs.
Above all, they had hoped for a verdict on the war's last 60 hours, when a desperate last pushdeep into south Lebanon gained nothing but the deaths of 33 soldiers, a quarter of the war's total Israeli losses (some 1, 400 Lebanese are reckoned to have died).