Lebanon’s government Eurobonds are surging on the election of a new president and on optimism that reforms would be ...

Laura Boushnak for The New York Times Banking and tourism have been the major economic drivers of Lebanon’s economy before and after the civil war, but both have suffered in recent years.

Lebanon’s parliament is set to vote for a new president after more than a year without one. Joseph Aoun, the Lebanese Army ...

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A devastating economic crisis, a political power vacuum, massive corruption and most recently the war between Hezbollah and ...

Banks in Lebanon have, despite the adverse conditions, continued to pursue expansion. The sector’s size is 3.6 times larger than the rest of the economy. Banks’ domestic assets reached $180bn at the ...