Devaluation. Is it a dirty word? These days you can find doomsayers on what will happen to the Lebanese pound – but they don’t want to get caught on what …
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Bou Khalil Markets recently shifted into expansion overdrive. In 1999, the supermarket chain listed on the Beirut Stock Exchange opened outlets in Tripoli and Mkalles and built a central distribution …
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Rallies at the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) are rare. There has been little interest In Lebanese stocks for the last two and a half years. Trading volume dropped from $640 …
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Stock of Politics Investing in stocks is pure speculation. But for Solidere, the most active company on the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE), taking up over 70% of the total market …
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Could you imagine the deficit drops over 20% by the end of the year? Debt servicing, now exceeding revenues, becomes less of a burden? A healthier climate renews investor confidence? …
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T he rating agency just won’t quit. Two months ago Standard & Poor’s (S&P) threatened that if the government didn’t do something about fiscal problems running wild, Lebanon would be …
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Rasamny-Younis Motor Company(Rymco) is still holding on to thenumber one position in car sales inthe local market with a 14.4% share so farthis year. That’s good news for the only …
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Imagine you arrive home tofind that your landlord hasstuck the phone bill inyour apartment door. Shock. Forthree months of local calls andInternet use the total is a whopping$450. Stuffing the …
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In the first month after the Israeli pulloutfrom the South, there were no skirmishesat the border and no air attacks onpower stations. Some believe that BasharAssad as the new leader …
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For years they’ve been looking with bated breath at their eastern neighbor. It’s a market of over 16 million consumers, four times the size of Lebanon’s. Its cheap labor and …