Bankers and politicians alike delight in calling the banking sector immune — immune to the financial crisis, immune to political rumblings and knee jerks in public opinion. But the …
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Lebanon’s industrial sector has overcome the odds stacked against it to have a surprisingly good 2010. Exports rose 32.6 percent to $2.56 billion as of the third quarter of …
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Lebanon has long represented to Middle Eastern insurance operators what Eton stands for in relation to Anglo-Saxon education – it is one of the oldest insurance sectors in the …
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Consumption is keeping Lebanon alive. As a major contributor to gross domestic product, the Lebanese penchant for luxury puts the shine on the country’s numbers, financially precarious as it …
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In a year where deadlines for global economic recovery were repeatedly pushed back like a teenager’s weekend curfew, Lebanon’s banks managed to sail through 2010 with relative ease. Commercial …
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Despite many new brands entering the Beirut market for the first time this year, a large number of existing shops have chosen to use the revival of downtown Beirut …
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The Arab World’s 16 active stock markets’ combined market capitalization in the fourth quarter of 2010 amounted to substantially more than $900 billion, confirming that Middle East and North …
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In light of the strong price performance of the Lebanese real estate market during the last three years, a popular topic of discussion across the country has been whether …
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Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said in October that he expected 2010 to have been another bumper year for Lebanese tourism, predicting that revenues from the industry will hit nearly …
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This year saw the launching of Beirut Terraces in Minet el Hosn — developer Benchmark’s second high-end project in the capital, with one of the highest prices per …