El Shark: The Central Bank of Turkey cut the benchmark one-week repo rate by 100 basis points to 36 percent for the first time in 9 months. The bank also cut the Turkish lira overnight lending rate from 40 to 39…
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Lebanon 24: Reuters, citing a Pentagon estimate: The cost of military operations in the war with Iran has exceeded $47 billion…
Nidaa Al Watan: Progress has been made in working with the World Bank to prepare a plan to strengthen regional connectivity between Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and neighboring countries. Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced that there was “an intention to hold a domestic conference in Lebanon next December, with the participation of the relevant ministries and the private sector, followed by a regional conference…”
Nidaa Al Watan: Amending Telecommunications Law No. 431, issued in 2002, is no longer a union demand limited to improving the working conditions of employees at the “Ogero” Authority. Rather, according to the Authority’s employees’ union, it has become a necessity imposed by rapid technological developments and changes in Lebanon’s telecommunications market. And between…
