Iraq Economic News and Points To Ponder Wednesday Evening 10-2-24

Government Advisor: No Concerns About Iraq's Financial Situation And Our Foreign Reserves Are Diverse

Time: 2024/10/02 {Economic: Al Furat News} The financial advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, reassured about the financial and economic situation of the country.

Saleh told Al Furat News Agency: "We should not worry about the current fluctuations in either monetary gold or the various foreign currencies that make up the country's foreign reserve portfolio, which varies from major foreign currencies and monetary gold, according to the global standard investment guidelines adopted by the monetary authority in high-level technical cooperation with multilateral international financial organizations, specifically the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank."

He explained, "Usually, the Central Bank of Iraq hedges in managing its sovereign investment portfolio with a studied and highly sensitive diversity and with standard ratios and precise weights for each foreign currency in addition to the monetary gold that makes up the foreign reserves, within the scope of what is called hedging against the risks of fluctuations in exchange rates of currencies and gold, which is a policy that expresses the efficiency of managing the country's investment portfolio and according to diversification in various foreign currencies and gold."

Saleh explained, "The decline in the market value of gold, for example, must be met with an increase in the value of the dollar or other foreign currencies through the management of the components of the foreign reserves portfolio itself, as diversification is an important pillar of the hedging policy in managing investments in foreign assets from fluctuations in foreign exchange rates and gold through diversifying the country's sovereign investment portfolio."

He pointed out that "the sovereign investment portfolio avoids what is called in the literature of accounting policy of central banks (unrealized losses) by immediately realizing (unrealized profits), which are the same unrealized profits that correspond to the unrealized losses resulting from fluctuations in gold or foreign currency prices at the same time."

He pointed out that "the availability of a good diversification policy, in the assets or holdings of the investment portfolio, is sufficient neutrality in maintaining the total market value of the country's foreign assets reserve and the stability of its value at all times."  LINK

Minister Of Planning Chairs A Meeting To Study The Merger Of Two Companies Of The Ministry Of Commerce

Wednesday 02 October 2024 | Economic Number of readings: 169  Baghdad / NINA / Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Planning, Mohammed Ali Tamim, chaired today, Wednesday, a meeting of the committee formed under the direction of the Prime Minister, to study the issue of merging two companies of the Ministry of Trade, in line with the state's economic vision.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Planning, the Chairman of the Advisory Board, Abdul Karim Al-Faisal, and the Prime Minister's advisors for economic, strategic and legal affairs, as well as the Director General of the General Company for Foodstuffs Trade at the Ministry of Trade, participated in the meeting.

During the meeting, the recommendations of the first meeting of the committee were discussed, the opinion of the Ministry of Trade in this regard, and the expected results of merging the Central Markets Company and the General Company for Foodstuffs Trade were studied, in accordance with the public interest and in a way that contributes to providing the best services to citizens. / End 8 https://ninanews.com/Website/News/Details?key=1159332

Iraq Calls On The Security Council To Exercise Its Role In Maintaining International Peace And Security

Wednesday 02 October 2024 19:22 | Politics  Number of readings: 119  Baghdad / NINA / Iraq called on the UN Security Council to exercise its role in maintaining international peace and security, while warning against dragging the region into a comprehensive war.

he Iraqi representative to the United Nations, Abbas Kazim Obaid, said in a speech at the emergency session of the Security Council: "The failure to deter the Zionist entity opens the door to more crimes and drags the region into broad conflicts."

He added: "The Security Council must issue immediate and binding resolutions to cease fire."

The Iraqi delegate pointed out: "The war has entered a new phase that threatens more killing and displacement," indicating: "The failure to put an end to the crimes encourages the Zionist entity to persist in them." /

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Oil Prices Rise As Attacks In Middle East Escalate

Economy  |  02/10/2024  Mawazine News – Baghdad  Oil prices rose in early trade on Wednesday, on concerns that the Middle East conflict could turn into a wider war and disrupt oil supplies from its main producing region after Iran fired ballistic missiles into Israel. Brent crude futures rose more than $74.56 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude rose 88 cents, or 1.26 percent, to $70.71 a barrel by 0029 GMT, down slightly from a rise of more than $1 earlier in the session. Both benchmarks jumped more than 5 percent in trading on Tuesday.

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The Dollar Exceeds 153 Against the Iraqi Dinar

Economy  |  02/10/2024   Mawazine News – Baghdad  The dollar exchange rate continued to rise against the dinar in local markets in Iraq today, Wednesday (October 2, 2024).  
The exchange rate recorded 153,500 dinars per hundred dollars.
The exchange rates recorded this morning, Wednesday, in Baghdad were 152,500 dinars for every 100 US dollars.    https://www.mawazin.net/Details.aspx?jimare=255555

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