According to BDL’s latest monetary report, the BOP recorded a cumulative deficit of $1.09B in the first quarter of 2020, compared to Read More
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The total number of cleared checks in the Lebanese financial system slumped from 2.65M checks in Q1 2019 to 1.85M checks in Q1 Read More
Lebanon’s Purchasing Managers’ Index hit an all-time low, as did the USA’s and most global markets’ PMI. Lebanon’s BLOM Read More
According to the central bank’s (BDL) balance sheet, Total assets increased by 4.5% year-to-date (YTD) to reach $147.7B in mid-April 2020. The breakdown Read More
According to Lebanon’s Central Bank (or BDL), the Balance of Payments (BOP) recorded a deficit of $505.3M in the second month Read More
During the first month of 2020, Lebanon’s trade deficit totaled $820.5M, narrowing from the $1.17B registered in the same month last year. Read More
Looking at Lebanon’s real estate activity, we infer that the number of real estate transactions in January 2020 added 27.3% totaling 4,668 transactions. However, Read More
MACROECONOMIC OVERVIEW Lebanon was in a state of “economic recession” in 2019. GDP growth dipped into negative territory in the consecutive quarters Q1 Read More
Treasury transfers to Electricite du Liban (EDL) slipped by an annual 5.2% (or the equivalent of $72.15M), to stand at $1.31B in the Read More
The latest data provided by the Lebanese Ministry of Industry (MoI) revealed that the value of total industrial exports fell by 2% year-on-year (Read More
