VOL. XLI

No. 16

20-April-1998

LEBANON

Two New Listings On Beirut Stock Exchange

The Beirut Stock Exchange has agreed to list two new companies - Byblos Bank andLebanon Holding - according to the Arabic-language daily al-Hayat. The new listingsshould raise market capitalization to $3.3bn from around $2.5bn currently and increase thenumber of total companies listed to seven and the number of banks to four.