Economics and Policy The IMF and the Tunisian government have reached agreement on a $1.78 billion precautionary loan which will be announced later today. More from Reuters Bank employees in Lebanon have vowed to stage fresh protests and sit-ins on April 28 to press their demand for the renewal of a 2008 collective labor agreement. More from The Daily Star Syria’s central bank set the exchange rate of the pound at $95.30 Monday, in a move aimed at propping up the country’s currency. More from The Daily Star Companies and Business Dubai-listed companies increased earnings by 88.2 percent in 2012, leading the GCC’s economic recovery, according to an analysis by Kuwaiti-based Global Investment House. More from Arabian Business A law that will allow Egypt's Islamist-led state to issue Islamic bonds contravenes the sharia in numerous ways, according to a panel of senior Muslim clerics whose objections
