The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index reached an all-time high last month, surging past its previous record reached in October 2007. It was up 11 percent as of April 25 …
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Despite serving 25 years with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mounir Rached bucks the stereotype of the cosseted economist for whom statistics are sacrosanct. Although his new office in the …
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Moody’s rating agency this week issued two warnings to the Lebanese economy and banking sector. On Tuesday they changed the outlook for government bonds from stable to negative and the …
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The need for proper governance is perhaps the paramount lesson of the 2008 financial crisis — one the regulators worldwide are now trying to address to prevent a repeat. Ludo …
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When news broke late last month that the total value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Middle East and North Africa had doubled in the first quarter of 2013, …
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The Standard and Poor’s 500 Index reached an all-time high last month, surging past its previous record reached in October 2007. It was up 11 percent as of April 25 …
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Hovering at around 140 percent of GDP, Lebanon’s public debt ratio is thought to be the fifth-highest in the world — making it a perennial problem for politicians and policymakers …
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Taavet Hinrikus is perhaps being generous when he compares his home country Estonia to Lebanon. While he may be right that both countries are small with a lot of expatriates, …
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London-headquartered, finance multinational HSBC is a stalwart of foreign banking in Lebanon, and Executive has consistently inquired with its senior management over the years about the bank’s strategies and views …
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Investors in gold have to be on alert today. After a secular bull market with more than 10 years of new highs, the gold price has been in correction since …