Lebanon to devalue currency by 90 pct: central bank

Lebanon will adopt a new official exchange rate of 15,000 pounds per US dollar on February 1, central bank governor Riad Salameh says, marking a 90 per cent devaluation from its current official rate that has remained unchanged for 25 years. The shift from the old rate of 1507 to 15,000 is still far off […]

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