Lebanon’s Balance of Payments (BoP) registered a $457.2M surplus in September 2017 and a $189.9M deficit during the first 9 months of the year, compared to a surplus of $554.9M by September 2016. As such, BDL’s Net Foreign Assets (NFA) recorded an increase of $2.96B by September this year and that of commercial banks dropped by $3.14B, by Q3 2017.
In September alone, BDL’s NFAs witnessed a rise by $1.12B and that of commercial banks dropped by $665.6M, from the prior month.
Balance of Payments (BoP) by September (in Millions $)
Source: BDL