Activity at the Beirut International Airport grew in January 2018 as the total number of passengers rose by 10.88% year-on-year (y-o-y) to reach 597,768 passengers. The improved airport activity came on ... read more
According to the Association of Lebanese Car Importers (AIA), the number of newly registered commercial and passenger cars deteriorated during the first 2 months of 2018 by 4.05% year-on-year (y-o-y) to ... read more
Activity at the Port of Beirut (PoB) witnessed an improvement by February 2018 as the port’s revenues recorded a 10.29% yearly increase to $39.85M. Total container activity including transshipment (TEU+TS) ... read more
Lebanon’s fiscal deficit narrowed by 25% year-on-year (y-o-y) to $2.50B by the October 2017. This was attributed to the 12.86% yearly increase in fiscal revenues, to $9.62B, outpacing the 6.34% annual ... read more
According to Ernst and Young’s Hotel Benchmark Survey, following the shocking resignation of PM Saad Hariri, which shook the Lebanese political scene, Beirut’s hotel occupancy rate in December 2017 dropped ... 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
The Central Bank’s (BDL’s) balance sheet posted a 0.88%% month-on-month (m-o-m) downtick in its Total assets, which totaled $122.3B in February 2018. BDL’s Foreign assets (grasping 35.5% of total assets) ... read more
Cement deliveries contracted by an annual 2.21% by the end of 2017, to stand at 5.15M tons compared to 5.27M tons by end 2016. In addition, the six-month moving average of the number of cement deliveries ... read more
According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) and the Association of Banks (ABL), Lebanon’s gross public debt climbed by an annual 6.19% to reach $79.52B by end-2017. In fact, the recorded growth almost ... read more
According to the data from the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (LRC), the number of real estate (R.E) transactions, which may include one or more realties, reached 5,346 transactions in ... read more
