Lebanon

We are maintaining our long-held view that the Lebanese economy will slow precipitously heading into 2012. A host of consumption, trade and investment indicators through H111 have... 2011-08-23

Consumer price inflation in Lebanon ticked slightly higher in May, coming in at 5.5% y-o-y, compared to 5.3% and 4.9% in April and March respectively. Food price inflation came in... 2011-06-27

BMI View: Political stability will remain hard to come by in Lebanon over the coming decade. However, despite the range of challenges facing the government, we believe that major political... 2011-06-10

We have revised up our end-2011 consumer price inflation forecast to 7.1% from 6.0% previously. Given the ongoing uptrend across the global commodities complex, as food and fuel account... 2011-05-26

The outlook for Lebanon's economy over the coming quarters has become decidedly less optimistic since the start of 2011. Although we had previously highlighted how external headwinds... 2011-05-26

Despite being overshadowed by events elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Lebanon's political crisis remains among our most paramount concerns at the moment. With the... 2011-03-24

According to latest data, consumer price inflation in Lebanon came in at 4.6% y-o-y in December, up from 4.3% a month prior. With global commodity prices expected to continue trending... 2011-03-24