The activity at Rafic Hariri International Airport improved in the first four months of the year as the total number of passengers rose by an annual 13.9% to 2.55M by April 2018. This can be partly ... read more
According to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), the Consumer Price Index (CPI) of Lebanon rose by 5.47% by April 2018. The average price of the clothing and footwear industry, accounting for ... read more
According to the Ministry of Tourism, the total number of tourists in Lebanon rose from 345,168 in Q1 2017 to 362,398 in Q1 2018, owing it to the yearly growths recorded in tourist arrivals from Europe and ... read more
Kafalat s.a.l, a Lebanese financial company that provides loan guarantees to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) issued the number of loan guarantees given from January 2018 to April 2018. According to ... read more
According to the Association of Lebanese Car Importers (AIA), the number of newly registered “commercial” and “passenger” cars recorded a 5.65% annual downtick to settle at 10,909 cars by April 2018. In ... read more
Lebanon’s trade deficit for the first three months of 2018 (“Q1” hereafter) stood at $3.9B, narrowing from $4.2B in Q1 2017, on the back of total imports that retreated by an annual 2.9% to $4.8B, while ... read more
According to E&Y’s Middle East Hotel Benchmark Survey, Beirut’s hotel occupancy rate slipped from 62.4% in Q1 2017 to 57.9% in Q1 2018. The down tick in hotel occupancy may be linked to the slashed ... read more
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Industry, the value of industrial exports rose by an annual 6.3% from $175.9 million (M) in the first month of 2017 to $187M in January 2018. In details, the main ... read more
The activity in Lebanon’s real estate (RE) sector in the first quarter of 2018 slowed down after recording marginal improvements in performance in the first two months. According to the data from the ... read more
According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), Lebanon’s gross public debt reached $81.5B in the second month of 2018, thereby recording an annual uptick of 7.08% and a 1.41% uptick from January 2018’s level. ... read more
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