The BLOM Lebanon PMI for October 2025 dropped to 50.6 from 51.5 for September 2025, signaling a third month of expansion in a row, however, at a softer pace than September 2025. Similar to the two previous months, the expansion of the private sector businesses is credited to the increase in output and new orders, while new export orders continued its contraction since March 2025, however, at a softer pace. This reveals that the expansion is a result of domestic expansion of private sector businesses activity. Interesting to note also that employment grew for the first month since February and the highest in just over 12 years. On the political front, the situation is ambiguous. The debate regarding the amendment of the elections law is still unsettled. As for the negotiations with Israel, it seems that there is an agreement between the Lebanese President, Prime Minister, and the Speaker of Lebanese Parliament regarding indirect negotiations similar to that of maritime border demarcation with the inclusion of some civil experts in the negotiations team. On the economic front, the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are still in limbo, without clear direction as to when and how they will be fruitfully concluded.
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