May you live in interesting times.” More than ever before, this Chinese curse painfully rings true for companies treading today’s dangerous world, prone to corporate crises and scandals on …
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Nestled amid pine trees in the Naas area of Bikfaya in Mount Lebanon, sits an old abandoned factory in which Lebanon’s cleanest and healthiest mineral water used to be …
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BMW Group’s unveiling of the Ghost, its newest addition to the Rolls Royce line-up, at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September sent a small shockwave through the blogs and forums …
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The Rachid Karami International Fair stands tall in the heart of Tripoli, Lebanon, and should be an iconic symbol for this aspiring city. Yet very few people seem to …
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Laura Martorano is the chief executive officer of Leo Sterling, the brokerage firm she founded in Dubai at the beginning of 2009. Previous to this, Martorano had been the CEO …
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Spectators at the January 4 inauguration watched fireworks turn the world’s tallest tower into an 828-meter fountain of flame. What came as a surprise is that the tower, known …
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Beirut SE Current year high: 1,200.49 Current year low: 991.49 > Review period: Closed July 23 at 1010.55 points Period change: -5.2% The MSCI Lebanon index continued trending flat with …
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Lebanon’s debt closes in on $50 billion Lebanon’s official gross public debt inched closer to $50 billion, reaching $49.9 billion at the end of October 2009, according to the latest …
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After Abu Dhabi pledged $10 billion to help Dubai World pay off its $4.1 billion sukuk (an Islamic bond) commitments, global markets revived and the Gulf seemed to breathe a …
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In early December, Finance Minister Raya Hassan announced that Lebanon had successfully issued $500 million in Eurobonds in an effort to refinance the country’s staggering public debt. Before the …