Business conditions failed to maintain their momentum in March and revealed a worsening business activity amongst companies in the private sector. Levels of Output and New Orders contracted at a faster ... read more
Over the month of February 2018, business activity at the Lebanese private sector witnessed a slower slowdown as a result of smoother drops in Output and New Orders. This led the BLOM Purchasing Managers’ ... read more
Business activity at the Lebanese private sector kicked off 2018 revealing a continuing recession, yet the slowest recorded in nine months. Declines in Output and New Orders were smoother in January 2018 ... read more
Despite the persisting declines in the levels of output and new work, contraction within the private sector economy soothed in November. Although employment levels kept on deteriorating, the rate at which ... read more
In line with the previous years, Lebanese banks preserved their role as buffers against the recurring headwinds of an uncertain economy. As a matter of fact and despite the existing low growth environment, ... read more
The fourth week after Hariri’s abrupt resignation held another bunch of optimism that was materialized by another progress on the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE). As a matter of fact, the suspension of ... read more
Three weeks after Lebanon’s Prime Minister (PM) Saad al-Hariri shocking resignation, the Lebanese stock market started to breathe again during this week’s four trading sessions. In reality, Hariri ... read more
During the week of Nov. 2nd – Nov. 9th 2017, Broad Money (M3) fell by a weekly LBP 490B ($325M) to reach LBP 208,066B ($138B). Nevertheless, M3 rose by a yearly 6.88% and by 4.53% since the start of the ... read more
Lebanese Forex Market Amid the week’s latest positive political developments following the Prime minister’s shock resignation on Nov.4th and the continuous support of BDL’s elevated foreign assets, which ... read more
Contraction in the private sector’s economy accelerated in October as the BLOM PMI declined further to 45.8 points. The index remained below the neutral mark of 50, separating economic contraction from ... read more
