The foreign reserve assets of the Central Bank rose by $343.88 million in the first half of April 2025 to $11.07 billion while gold reserves increased by $1.39 billion to $29.73 billion on the back of deepening trade war fears.
The surface area of construction permits in Lebanon rose by 18.55% y-o-y to just below 1.73 million sqm in Q1-2025.