Despite the incremental drop in the number of RE transactions witnessed during the first 5 months of the year, the total number of transactions climbed by an annual 24% to 27,216 in H1 2020. Notably, the ... read more
Interpreting the checks dataset provided by the Association of Lebanese Banks’ (ABL) on a monthly basis reveals that the uptrend witnessed in the total value of checks early-on in 2020 began to be ... read more
The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) revealed that Lebanon’s monthly inflation rate surged from 11.4% and 17.5% in Feb. and March 2020, respectively, to reach 46.6% in April and a record-high of ... read more
The Lebanese tourism sector, a leading growth driver, took the hit in Q1 2020 as the national protests ongoing since Q4 2019 were coupled with international travel bans following the outbreak of ... read more
Data released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) revealed that personnel costs climbed by a yearly 4.2% to stand at $1.22B during Jan./Feb.2020. Personnel costs were mainly inflated as a result of the annual ... read more
The Association of Car Importers in Lebanon (denoted as AIA) recently shared its automotive report in which it explains that the industry is currently facing the “risk of closing companies of importers of ... read more
According to the balance sheet of Banque du Liban (BDL), the central bank’s Total assets added 6.6% since year-start, to reach $150.7B in mid-June 2020. The increase was mainly a result of the 26% annual ... read more
The data released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) recently indicated that Lebanon’s gross public debt hit $92.42B by March 2020, thereby recording an annual 7.2% uptick. The increase is mainly attributed ... read more
The latest statistics on activity at the Port of Beirut revealed an annual slump of 46.7% in the revenues of the Port of Beirut (PoB) to $45.8M by May 2020. In detail, Total container activity including ... read more
Tourism activity in Lebanon continued its downward trend in the first four months of 2020. Tourists were discouraged from traveling to Lebanon since the eruption of October 2019 protests which raised the ... read more
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