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Over the past two weeks, the Beirut Stock Exchange (BSE) underwent a significant amount of trading activity characterized by a one-week rally making an about face as political tensions flared. Optimism in the first week of rival political parties reaching an agreement on the election of a president drove the BLOM Stock Index (BSI) to a 52-week high of 1,691points.

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