<?xml version="1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet title="XSL_formatting" type="text/xsl" href="/rss/rss.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Zawya.com - Beirut SE News</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/equities/lb</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009 ABQ Zawya Ltd. All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:42:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><ttl>8</ttl><image><title>Zawya.com | Middle East Business News and Company Directory</title><width>144</width><height>76</height><link>http://www.zawya.com/equities/lb</link><url>http://www.zawya.com/images/newsletter_zawya_logo.gif</url></image><item><title>Signature of a $30M Line of Credit Between the Arab Trade Financing Program and Bank Audi</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091119074243</link><description>A line of credit agreement was signed in Beirut on November 18, 2009, between the Arab Trade Financing Program, based in Abu Dhabi, and Bank Audi sal - Audi Saradar Group, a designated national agency of the Program in Lebanon.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:40 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Press Release </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091119074243</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Lebanon&apos;s 12 largest banks see 9.2% profit increase in first nine months</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidDS171109_dsart58</link><description>Profits of Lebanon?s 12 leading banks went up by 9.2 percent in the first nine months of 2009, according to Bank Audi?s Weekly Monitor. The banks, known as Alpha group, recorded an aggregate total profit of $912.8 million in the first nine months of 2009.</description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:10:54 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">The Daily Star </source><guid isPermaLink="false">DS171109_dsart58</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Bank Audi in $340M Finance Facility to Lafarge Cement Syria</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091112064654</link><description>Bank Audi sal - Audi Saradar Group announced that it closed a 7-year landmark USD 340 million project finance facility in favour of Lafarge Cement Syria, for the partial funding of the first private greenfield cement plant in Syria, with a production capacity of 2.75 million tons per annum.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:20:40 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Press Release </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091112064654</guid><category>Open</category></item><item><title>Mena equity markets decline by 1.8% on negative global cues  </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091111044716</link><description>The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) equity markets fell by 1.8 per cent in October reducing year-to-date (YTD) gains to 24 per cent. </description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:27:20 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Emirates Business 24/7 </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091111044716</guid><category>Subscription</category></item><item><title>Sabic tops list of largest publicly traded GCC firms </title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091110054347</link><description>Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) is at the top of the largest 100 publicly traded Gulf companies in terms of market value at $64 billion (Dh235bn). It is followed by Al Rajhi Bank at $30bn and Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) at...</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:59:56 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">Emirates Business 24/7 </source><guid isPermaLink="false">ZAWYA20091110054347</guid><category>Subscription</category></item><item><title>NBK Capital: MENA in Focus (05-Nov-09)</title><link>http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidpdf_081109130420</link><description>This is a PDF report. </description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:03:00 GMT</pubDate><source url="http://www.zawya.com">NBK Capital </source><guid isPermaLink="false">pdf_081109130420</guid><category>Subscription</category></item></channel></rss>