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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Imad El-Hajj, president of AmericanUnderwriters Group (AUG), probablynever thought of it, but his job is muchlike that of a priest. In times of trouble, anxiety,and worry, people come running tohim. …
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Condolences to Solidere shareholders. Profits of the realestate company, responsible for rebuilding the BeirutCentral District (BCD) and the largest business inLebanon, plummeted from $54.2 million in 1998 to $3.7 millionlast …
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The first time EXECUTIVE met Jean Riachi, chairman and generalmanager of Financial Funds Advisors (FFA), was in thesummer of 1998 at the head office of Bou Khalil Marketsin Baabda. The …
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You’ve heard it before, we’re sure,that old adage everyone so likes torepeat: Lebanon — the region’sentrepreneurial spirit and center of freemarket capitalism. It seems, however, thatsomebody forgot to tell the …
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