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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In the midst of all the chatter around Lebanon’s new potential oil and gas reserves offshore, an art exhibition in Karantina’s Sfeir-Semler Gallery reminds us of an era when Lebanon …
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For hundreds of years, land has been a refuge investment and much-preferred option to cash. The same is true today, as investors have had enough scares with financial market investments …
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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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Imagine a day in the not-too-distant future when you sit searching an app on your phone. You find something you want to buy, but you don’t have your credit card …
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With global revenues of $4.7 billion annually, Landmark Groups are among the giants of the retail and hospitality sectors in the Middle East and Asia. The group has been in …
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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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The enterprise of the Zard Abou Jaoude family is a self-declared attempt at renaissance, as per the very name of its cornerstone property development company, Renaissance Holding. It is a …
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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 …