Lebanon

In a further sign of Lebanon's often fragile security environment, a bomb explosion at a restaurant in the city of Tyre in late April injured five people. Reports indicate that the... 2012-04-26

The ratio of government debt-to-GDP in Lebanon is expected to stabilise in the 130% area over the coming years, down from a peak of 179% in 2006. A repeated failure to push through... 2012-04-26

Consumer price inflation in Lebanon ticked up to 3.2% y-o-y in January from 3.1% in December. Food price inflation (which accounts for 20% of the consumer price basket) came in at a... 2012-02-22

Reports in local media in late February suggested that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was intending on revising its previous indictments in the assassination of former Prime Minister... 2012-02-22

Lebanon's trade deficit continued to expand at an alarming rate through September 2011, having increased to US$16.4bn compared to US$10.2bn in the same time period in 2010. Growth in... 2011-12-28

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