Economy & Finance

Any lender asks a lot from and about their borrowers. The story is familiar to any Lebanese parent who ever needed to take out a loan of a few thousand …

The IMF is the primary publisher of brainy perspectives on the economies of countries, regions, and the world. The latest series of IMF assessments of the global economy –namely The …

In November 2023, four years after the start of Lebanon’s severe financial crisis, Harvard Growth Lab suggested that Lebanon consider adopting full dollarization among other economic and financial restructuring and …

The year 2008 will forever be remembered for bringing the global financial system to the brink of total collapse. “When I predicted earlier this year that we were facing the …

Established in 1994, Fidus is one of the oldest financial institutions in Lebanon. It acts as a brokerage house subsidiary for Société Générale de Banque au Liban (SGBL). Fidus already …

Inflation was the biggest economic story in the Middle East for 2008, before the global financial system almost completely self-destructed. While inflation was a global problem due to a sharp …

At the close of 2008, most financial analysts and observers of the Casablanca Stock Exchange (Bourse des Valeurs de Casablanca, BVC) agree that the market remains sheltered from the financial …

Tunisia’s Bourse des Valeurs Mobilieres (BVMT) is expected to remain relatively immune to the international financial crisis in 2009. Mokdadi Hamadi, CEO of UBCI Finance, said that in light of …

If it takes brief visits to both extremes to plot a middle course, then 2008 provided Turkey with an opportunity to write the manual for the rest of the world. …

The Initial Public Offering (IPO) market in 2008 was vibrant in the region before investor confidence was sapped by the global financial disaster. The Bahrain Tribune reported that after specific …