The official dollar exchange rate is expected to fall below LL1,500 in the near future after the central bank hinted that it would ease its intervention in...
Women in business made their presence felt yesterday when more than 70 executives held a seminar in Tripoli. The event had the dual purpose of bringing...
The government’s budget deficit rose to 46 per cent of spending in September, compared with 39 per cent in August. Fouad Siniora, minister of state for...
Mohammed Daras stood proudly next to the only car at the seventh Islamic trade fair in Tripoli. The Nasim is a small four-door car that was produced in Iran...
Lebanese businesses yesterday negotiated patiently with officials from the Islamic Development Bank in an attempt to win approval for project finances. ...
Tripoli was a mixed bag yesterday as it hosted the 7th Islamic Trade Fair, the biggest event ever in the capital of the north. Stretching over an area of...
The seventh Islamic Trade Fair opens in Tripoli today, the biggest event of its kind ever held in Lebanon, boasting a 20,000-metre2 exhibition hall and a...
Privatization is the buzz word now that Salim Hoss has pledged to do whatever possible to reduce the public debt. George Corm, minister of finance, has added...
Banque Audi threw down a challenge to its competitors yesterday, declaring its goal to create the largest bank network in Lebanon in the coming year. On the...
There were three of us sharing a cab to Damascus. I was on my way to cover a conference, another passenger was going back home, while Mary Sabbagh wanted to...
Under the chandeliers of a mock 18th century palace in Damascus, more than 350 Lebanese and Syrian industrialists discussed at the weekend ways to overcome...
Gabriel Sehnaoui, chairman of the Beirut stock exchange committee, yesterday blamed the dollar interest rates offered by Lebanese banks for drawing ...
The spread of “inferior” computers, cheap and locally assembled, is causing concern to many leading international PC companies in Lebanon. This view was...
Lebanon’s industries may have to close down unless the government lifts tariffs on raw materials, reduces electricity charges and allows easier credit...
Next year’s February shopping festival is “doomed to failure” unless traders and hotel owners are scrupulous about offering genuine 50 per cent reductions. ...
McDonald’s opens its first Lebanese restaurant in Beirut today, complete with a drive-in facility and as much security as you might expect around the Grand...
The first Kuwaiti exhibition in Lebanon opened yesterday at the Forum de Beyrouth with appeals to the Lebanese government to reduce custom duties to...
Banque Audi told international investors at the Cairo conference that banking and the capital market had grown significantly in Lebanon in the last few...
Kuwait arrives in Beirut today as 40 manufacturing firms from the Gulf country take part in a five-day fair in a bid to increase market share in Lebanon. ...
Slow economic growth, new taxes and low inflation under a new government, albeit one headed by Rafik Hariri, are among the predictions of the Economist...
Fahim Modad, second vice governor of the central bank, feels positively about the amount of loans currently being made by Lebanese commercial banks and...
The central bank announced yesterday that the industrial, agricultural and commercial sectors showed slight improvements in terms of production, demand and...
Britishs ambassador David MacLennan gave a group of Lebanese industrialists an object lesson yesterday in how to export to Britain. “We’re a competitive...
Habib Lteif, chairman of the board of Casino du Liban, wants politicians to stop meddling in the affairs of his administration as a condition before he...
Youssif Choukair, president of the Investment Development Authority of Lebanon (Idal), emerged as the key speaker in a seminar yesterday on investment...