Last year may have marked a renaissance for Lebanon’s tourism industry, with the 1.8 million-plus visitors far eclipsing the pre-civil war high of 1.4 million in 1974, but 2010 looks …
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Some competitions are won by a narrow margin. If the last six months are any precedent, the contest over hummus won’t be one of them. On May 8th, Lebanon carved …
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Albert Hourani, the late Lebanese-British historian once wrote: “All states are artificial… they have been formed by specific historical processes, by human acts within a given physical environment over a …
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Beirut SE Current year high: 1,200.49 Current year low: 815.53 > Review period: Closed: May 21 – 1,102.47 Period change: -0.62% Good macroeconomic expectations and encouraging numbers on commercial …
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Beirut bourse booms after bank stock sale Total trading volumes at the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) reached 102.1 million shares in the first quarter, up 66 percent on the same …
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Real estate sector sets new highs The real estate sector continued to perform well in the first quarter, up 41 percent on 2009 to reach a record 22,059 transactions, according …
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Regional stock market indices Regional currency rates MAF mall empire set for $3.5 billion expansion Majid Al-Futtaim Properties (MAF), the Dubai-based retail, property and investment company, aims to double its …
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Marwan Barakat is head of research at Bank Audi. He sat down with Executive to discuss the issues currently facing Lebanon’s banking sector and possible solutions to the country’s fiscal woes. …
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If the global financial crisis taught the world anything, it was that the banking world and the real economy are two arms of the same body. But while countries around …
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Lending boom Few heads were turned by the first quarter results of Lebanon’s banks. As expected, rankings and market shares were maintained, deposits continued to grow 2.5 percent for the …