MAY 16, 2011
VietFinanceNews.com – Vietnam, which has kept the precise level of its foreign reserves undisclosed, may publicize the data regularly next year via its national statistics office.
The General Statistics Office in Hanoi has announced a new national statistical indicator system which has 76 additional indicators, including statistics on money supply, credit, interest rate, budget deficit, government debts and foreign reserves.
Baghdad, 16 May (Rn) – The leader of the coalition of state law, on Monday, the political blocs to respect the will of its leader in the selection of security, what is seen as the “Iraqi” that the owners of the will to keep the security file outside his agreement Arbil, while Deputy Iraqi idea of reducing the number of ministries in Maliki’s government “unacceptable.”
He said Hassani, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the political process built on a political consensus in the distribution of ministerial positions, but the Erbil Convention stressed the need to choose a prime minister candidate security.”
Still Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki manages proxy ministries of defense, interior and national security as commander of the armed forces, despite the granting of his confidence in the current House of Representatives of 21 of December last.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: First Deputy of Parliament Speaker Qusai Al-Suhail said today that the proposed names for the security and military posts are acceptable by political blocks.
He added that” these names are acceptable except for the Iraqiyah political bloc.”
The objection of Iraqiyah bloc is “non-selection of its candidate for the post of Defence Ministry.
Parliament Speaker announced the names of the nominees for the posts.
The names were Saadoun Al-Dulaimi, current Minister of Culture, as Minister of Defence, Tawfeeq Al-Yassiri for the Ministry of interior, and Riyadh Ghareeb for the Ministry of National Security.
2011-05-16
BAGHDAD (Iba) … A member of the House of Representatives on the mass of center coalition Muhammad Iqbal said that the House of Representatives will hold a special session during the next two weeks, noting that the special meeting is very important in the presence of a lot of files that you wait for the solution.
He said Iqbal told the independent press (Iba) The most important two files need to be quick solutions are naming candidates and discuss the security ministries, the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, stressing the need to resolve the file security ministries during the week and will not be postponed until after the holiday.
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Instructed the CBI to close all shops banking is approved in the country.
The source said the central bank, told all of Iraq [where] on Monday that “the Central Bank of Iraq issued an order closing all stores banking is approved through a common subunits between the police and domestic intelligence in the lists issued by the bank.”
By Arif Sharif – May 16, 2011 2:20 AM CT
Citigroup Inc., (C), the U.S. bank which earns about a $1 billion in revenue from the Middle East, hired a former U.S. diplomat to oversee its team in Iraq as the holder of the world’s fourth-biggest oil reserves rebuilds its economy. (more…)
Iraq seeks to develop its banking sector, by launching the system to transfer or withdraw funds by mobile phone, which uses 70 percent of Iraqis, while 20 percent of them have only a bank account.
This project aims to allow banking operations while reducing the movement of people, in the country is witnessing acts of violence almost daily, and is considered among the most corrupt countries in the world.
Supervisors say the plan, which is scheduled to enter into force within one year, that this step will be an additional source of income for banks as it will double the number of financial transactions.
The governor of the Iraqi Central Bank, Sinan Shabibi, at a press conference in Baghdad, on Monday, said the project which is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development «very important to strengthen the capacity of the private banking sector».
Monday 16 May 2011
BAGHDAD – The Feed – expect a member of the National Alliance MP Hussein Al-Asadi to vote on candidates for security ministries within the next week, noting that there were many attempts to bridge the gap in views between the political blocs. “
And al-Asadi told the news agency public opinion (and babysit) said on Monday: “meetings now taking place between members of the clusters for the purpose of reaching a solution satisfactory to all parties regarding the security minister.”
Noting that “the next week will see the meeting as well as an intensive of all the forces involved in the political process in order to reach consensus on candidates for the ministries.”
He stressed the leadership of the coalition of state law on the need to make concessions, blocks and the national interest and give up personal interests for the end of this file.
A number of economists differed on the postponement of the tariff act alkmerket, while the head of market research and consumer protection would postpone decision did not prevent rising prices by between 20-50 percent, the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister that increasing prices under application of the law is routine, adding that reviving production aspects that will soak up sharply rising prices, indicating that the application of the law Tariffs would increase the effectiveness of the Iraqi economy and revitalise production thus increasing family incomes, an academic Economist said that the law was rushed and not based on detailed economic analyses that determine the level of protection needed for each commodity, stating that the application of the law while during which Iraq many imported goods, foodstuffs and Cape could negatively impact financial At the level of economic well-being, especially for low-lying income …
The latest daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 16-MAY-2011. The results were as follows:
| DETAILS | NOTES |
| Number of banks | 18 |
| Auction price selling dinar / US$ | 1170 |
| Auction price buying dinar / US$ | —– |
| Amount sold at auction price (US$) | 242,628,000 |
| Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) | —– |
| Total offers for buying (US$) | 242,628,000 |
| Total offers for selling (US$) | —– |
First Deputy President of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Sunday, that the names currently on the table to fill the security ministries are well received by the political blocs with the exception of the Iraqi List, as pointed out that the resistance is a legitimate right, national, and continuing with the presence of the occupation.
He said Qusay al-Suhail said in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, “The names currently on the table to fill the security ministries are well received by a number of political blocs, the Iraqi List has objection on the grounds that the nomination and Defence Minister did not come through them,” noting that ” There is ongoing dialogue to reach a formula that satisfies everyone. “
Recorded the Iraqi market for securities in the recent steady rise in the last year in the index ranges between 127 and 128 points per cent.
The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the market high-Noam Kassab Radio Free Iraq that the rise recorded for the first time in nearly eight months due to the “injection of capital and foreign investors and the state of confidence relative to the security situation as well as the adoption of the electronic trading of stocks and bonds a year ago, in a manner increased the transparency, accuracy and speed of trading has encouraged many to invest in the market. “
May 15, 2011
When Dominique Strauss Kahn, then director of the IMF, fled his Manhattan hotel room in a vain attempt to take an Air France plane to Europe, Roman Polanski style, he inexplicably left his cellphone in the room where he had allegedly attempted to rape a hotel maid. The cellphone was of course loaded with a list of very interesting names and numbers, pored over by New York police and Federal US officials.
Why was Stauss Kahn in New York? He went there instead of flying direct from Washington to Berlin, first stop on a European tour and first meeting set with chancellor Merkel of Germany. To reassure Merkel that the next bailout of Greece would cost little to German finances, that the euro would stay strong and credible because the US dollar was now close to terminal meltdown and was receiving special treatment from the IMF.
Erbil, May 15 (Aknews) – After it became of mascot to a group of US Marines in Anbar, Iraq, the donkey landed in New York through a cargo jet from Turkey, the AP reported today.
The report says the donkey from Iraq is now a United States resident.
After being quarantined for two days he was released yesterday and began a road trip to Omaha, Nebraska, where he is destined to become a therapy animal, according to the AP report.
In mid-2008, Smoke wandered in to Camp Taqaddum west of Fallujah, a former Iraqi air base used by Marines.
The donkey, which once snatched and ate a cigarette from a Marine, soon became part of the unit.
