{"id":198626,"date":"2018-08-03T14:40:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T17:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=198626"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:40:40","slug":"lebanon-private-sector-activity-slows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/lebanon-private-sector-activity-slows\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon private sector activity slows down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Private sector activity slowed in Lebanon, as per a survey from IHS Markit with sponsorship from Blominvest Bank. The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index (PMI) slid from 46.0 points in June to 45.4 points in July. Scores lower than 50 show contraction, according to the Blominvest Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The index hit its lowest since October 2016, and private sector demand remains moderate. Based on the PMI, the survey projects Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growing by less than 1% in Q3 this year. The index covers aspects including new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries and stockpiles.<\/p>\n<p>As per a report released by Blominvest along with the survey, real estate is particularly sensitive to the sluggish economic environment, countering a hike in tourist arrivals, and Lebanon\u2019s fiscal deficit leads to major macroeconomic vulnerability. The country welcomed 853,000 tourists from January to June, up 3.2% year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-198619\">Joseph Eid\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The index which tracks activity dropped from 46 points in June to 45.4 in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":198619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[339,4239,550,553,10647],"class_list":{"0":"post-198626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-lebanon","9":"tag-blominvest-bank","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-gdp","12":"tag-libano-ar"},"wps_subtitle":"The index which tracks activity dropped from 46 points in June to 45.4 in July. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}