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Lebanon’s finance minister: ‘The phoenix will rise again’
“I’M LOOKING AT my screen,” says the senior investment banker in Beirut. “There are more buy orders than sells.” The bombs are falling but business goes on in Lebanon. It’s far from business as usual, though. The banker says that just before speaking to Euromoney he was on the phone to his wife, discussing the possibility of her and their children moving abroad while the war continues. He says he will be alright; he has his work to preoccupy him.
It is several days into the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah. The Beirut stock exchange has come under heavy pressure, with the price index down by almost 11% in the week beginning July 10. Nearly all the gains made this year have been wiped out. Now, though, investors are sniffing buying opportunities again. The...
