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Lebanese major retailers to shut down amid economic crisis

by Associated Press
| July 3, 2020 12:03 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Major retailers in Lebanon announced on Thursday they will temporarily shut down in the face of an increasingly volatile currency market and their inability to set prices while the Lebanese pound plunges against the dollar.

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