Lebanon

Consumer price inflation in Lebanon ticked slightly higher in September according to latest data, coming in at 4.0% y-o-y, compared to 3.4% y-o-y and 2.9% in August and July respectively.... 2010-11-19

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Lebanon in mid-October on a two-day visit to meet President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Hizbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.... 2010-11-19

Lebanon's ongoing political impasse is having a positive impact on the country's public finances, as the government's hitherto inability to pass the 2010 budget is preventing a more... 2010-11-16

Lebanon is at risk of renewed violence, as the country nervously awaits the results of a UN-backed tribunal investigating the assassination of the then-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in... 2010-09-24

A Lebanese prosecutor charged 84 people in early September with involvement in a deadly sectarian clash that killed three people in Beirut in August, in what was a further sign of the... 2010-09-23

Consumer price inflation in Lebanon rose 3.4% y-o-y in August according to recently released data, up from 2.9% in July. The main driver behind the uptick was an increase in 'clothing... 2010-09-23

BMI View: Lebanon will find it hard to sustain the 2009 level of outperformance, in terms of real GDP growth, but as long as there is no further conflict with Israel, it will be among... 2010-08-31

BMI View: Lebanon will find it hard to sustain the 2009 level of outperformance, in terms of real GDP growth, but as long as there is no further conflict with Israel, it will be among... 2010-08-31

The marriage of convenience between the reformist March 14 and March 8 parties has worked surprisingly well, but things could come to a head now that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon... 2010-08-31

BMI View : Syria's involvement in the Middle Eastern political scene will increase in the short term. In our view, the Middle East peace and stabilisation process will require... 2010-08-25