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Title:Lebanon: Beirut Stock Exchange Resumes Trading Following 13 Year Shutdown
Date:22nd January 1996
Summary:The Beirut stock exchange, once the most active in the Middle East, resumed trading on January 22 after a shutdown lasting nearly 13 years. Market officials and stockbrokers expected a quiet trading day, with only three stocks listed out of the 42 quoted when the stock exchange closed in 1983 because of the civil war in Lebanon. The minister of Finance Fouad Sanyora attended the reopening.
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Location:LEBANON BEIRUT
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