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  1. Here's some articles of Dinarian interests... -ISX issues, launch Construction Bonds. -Gold price standard revealed in Iraq. -More Western oil companies pull out of Iraq. -India dumps USD over shameless US jobs report. Treat as rumors. Not verified. Your opine. KTFA via Clare: The Iraqi Market Decides To Launch Trading On Construction Bonds. ARTICLE: The Iraq Stock Exchange decided to launch trading on reconstruction bonds starting from March 19. A source in the Iraq Stock Exchange told Al-Eqtisad News that the construction bonds will be traded starting from the Tuesday session, March 19, 2024, & will be in two denominations: 500 thousand Dinars, with an interest of 6% & one million Dinars, with an interest of 8%. He added that the 2nd issuance of reconstruction bonds will be launched for trading in the Wednesday session, Mar 27, 2024. Clare: With Its Rise Locally... Iraq's Gold Reserves Were Revealed. ARTICLE: The economic advisor to the PM, Mazhar Muhammad Salih, revealed the size of the Iraqi gold reserve at the CBI. Saleh tolda news agency, “There should be a distinction between fundamentally imported commercial gold & monetary gold, which is an integral part of the country’s foreign reserves, as monetary gold falls within the diversification of the monetary authority’s investment portfolio & the numbers indicate that it exceeds 132 tons of monetary gold and within the safe range of reserves.” foreign to the country. He added, "As for commercial gold, it is regulated by a law and instructions that are subject to the controls of commercial systems & the gold marking law, which the Central Agency for Standardization and Quality Control undertakes to mark & protect gold assets supplied to the country as national wealth." Local markets in Baghdad are witnessing an increase in gold prices, as the selling price of a gram (the mithqal) reached 465 thousand Dinars. FROM OTHER SOURCES: Oil Giants SHUTDOWN German Plants, India Dumps USD Payments For Oil Over Shameless US Jobs Report. ARTICLE: In the latest blow to German industry, oil giants including BP & Shell are scaling back their oil refining in the country. This threatens to pile on more pressure, making manufacturing even more expensive. Meanwhile, India is trying to De-Dollarize their oil purchases away from the Dollar, this is another big move by the world's 3rd-largest oil consumer. And finally, we must break down the latest and shameless jobs report from the BLS.
  2. The central bank raises national bonds worth 1 trillion dinars economy Since 03/30/2017 11:48 pm (Baghdad time) Baghdad balances News The central bank announced Thursday that it will launch national bonds with a nominal value of one trillion dinars and an interest rate of 8%. The Information Office of the Central Bank of Iraq Acer Jabbar Director in a statement received / scales News / copy of it, that "the Central Bank of Iraq is determined to put national bonds with a nominal Asdarih second on behalf of the Ministry of Finance Bosaddarah with five categories (100,000, 250.0000, 500,000, 1000.000, 5000.000) dinars, and $ 1 trillion Iraqi dinars. " "The bonds will be sold" an interest rate of 8% per annum annual coupons for a period of two years starting from 02/04/2017 in nominal terms and payable by the Ministry of Finance 02.04.2019 ". He noted that "banks can and citizens of all purchase orders submitted to the central bank directly with bringing a color copy of the identity of the Civil Status, and can use these bonds as collateral to obtain loans or facilities or any transactions require collateral, can also be traded on the Iraq Stock Exchange and selling Hraoua ".anthy 29 / d 24
  3. Howdy ISX-Men, Just started looking into this area again... Blessings, http://static.mubasher.info/File.Mix_Announcement_File/870346EA-7E71-4929-85B9-310CC4F7307F.pdf
  4. China is About to Take Control of Global Oil Markets by Dr. Kent Moors | published April 26th, 2016 Some time ago, while I was advising on a refinery project in Ecuador, I explained here in Oil & Energy Investor how China’s oil policy was evolving. The country’s objective used to be controlling oil production abroad, with the aim of transporting that oil back home. But in 2013, Ecuador, the smallest of the OPEC producers, learned the hard way that this objective had changed. After running out of money, both Ecuador and its national oil company had to rely on loans from China to stay afloat. In return, Beijing gained control over the revenue flow from Ecuadorian oil exports. The oil was allowed to flow anywhere, as long as the proceeds went back to China (as loan repayments). Now, several of my sources are telling me that China is about to unleash the next step in its plan to control the world’s oil markets. And this time, the targets can be found in an unsuspecting place. And in an unsuspecting fashion, too… Iran and Iraq Have Both Been Given a Free Pass by OPEC Before we get to China, let me first give you some background. Low oil prices are hitting hard at two of oil’s central players, both of which are expecting to ramp up production – Iraq and Iran. While both Iraq and Iran are members of OPEC, neither one has had a monthly OPEC production quota for some time. Those quotas are supposed to determine how much oil each member exports to world markets. It used to be that OPEC calculated expected global demand and then deducted non-OPEC production. What’s left was called the “call on OPEC,” and was divided among members as a monthly quota. Of course, there is no way to prevent countries from exceeding those quotas. And the current environment of “every country for itself” has effectively rendered the quotas moot. Iraq continues to suffer from internal political discord, as well as the threat of Daesh. That’s the more pejorative way of referring to the abhorrence that calls itself the “Islamic State” (or IS), and I refuse to even imply that these monsters have anything resembling sovereignty. Meanwhile, Iran was until recently under Western sanctions and is intent on returning to its pre-sanction production and export levels, as you’ve seen here in Oil & Energy Investor before. But Iran’s desired volume – in excess of 4 million barrels a day – will probably be reached as early as June, just in time for the next meeting on capping global production, this one to be held in Moscow. But those levels cannot be sustained, because of Iran’s significant internal problems in both fields and infrastructure. Both Baghdad and Tehran require large amounts of investment to overcome growing production crises that will test their ability to obtain the export revenues they both need. But this investment is slow in coming. For Iraq, the upfront problems remain security and political instability – companies are worried that the production goals will be undermined by political discord. This latter point deserves more emphasis than it has received in the West. Daesh can never control – or even attack – the primary oil fields in Iraq’s Shiite-dominated south. But by putting pressure on a beleaguered government in Baghdad, they nonetheless accomplish the same objective: they paralyze the central administration, halting attempts to ramp up oil production. OPEC has given both Iraq and Iran a multi-year delay in the enforcement of oil export quotas. In the current climate of excessive production, the quotas have not been applied. But they will return in short order, especially if a production freeze is reached at the June meeting in Moscow. However, the problem for both Iraq and Iran is arising from within… Both Countries are in Desperate Need of Western Oil Expertise Low oil prices have produced long delays in payments to providers of field services. In the case of Iraq, that problem is now also affecting the international oil company (IOC) majors running the oil fields. In the case of Iran, sanctions have prevented foreign involvement – banning the Western technology and expertise Iran needs to keep its oil infrastructure from collapsing. Replacing Western companies with Chinese and even Russian field operators has been a disaster. Virtually all production in Iran is now done using domestic field services. That results in inferior, and sometimes nonexistent, work. A deeper issue is the way both countries give out contracts. In Iraq, outside companies are provided a fixed payment per barrel extracted above a contracted target amount. The result is more properly to be regarded as a field service contract. Meanwhile, in Iran the constitution and the law prohibit outsiders from owning either land or raw materials inside the country. This means that foreign companies must operate under very bulky and time-consuming buy-back contracts – in which a company is paid in produced oil according to fixed costs and prices negotiated at the beginning. In neither case does the resulting contract approach anything resembling a joint venture. That means that the fields remain under the ownership of Iraqi and Iranian national oil companies; international oil majors (IOCs) cannot place any portion of these oil reserves on their own books. Both countries have been searching for ways to make the investment more attractive. As you’ve read here before, Tehran has scheduled London meetings with financial sources on three recent occasions, only to have to cancel each time because there was no political consensus back home. All of this has led to a significant new development – and a new opportunity for China… This New Financing Approach is Opening the Gates for the Chinese Baghdad has proposed paying its past due bills with currency bonds rather than cash. The Iraqi Finance Ministry has already begin deploying the paper in the face of an expanding 8%+ budget deficit. These bonds can be traded on the local market, and either cashed in at a discount or used at face value as collateral on loans. Another approach now under development will apply these bonds to arrearages owed to IOCs. One idea is to use the value of oil reserves in the ground as collateral for these bonds. It is a move that the IOCs might actually prefer, since it would give them at least some ability to “book” reserve values, albeit indirectly (through the face value of the bonds). Iran already plays the game of “you pretend to work and we pretend to pay you” with its all-domestic service providers. But Tehran is now considering this bond approach as a possible way of bringing in foreign providers while at the same time avoiding any violations of local “ownership” restrictions. What would really jumpstart this payment-in-bonds approach would be the ability to utilize the paper in broader local markets, both attracting some value in secondary trading and allowing the face value to work in broader collateral and trading situations. For that to happen, international banks must act as either guarantors of the paper or, in the case of additional issuances, as book runners for the placements. Here is where the terrain may shift in a seismic way. Word from several of my sources indicate that Chinese banks (with, of course, the official backing of the government in Beijing) may step in to provide these services. The move would increase China’s presence in the oil sector on both sides of the Shatt al-Arab (the river separating Iraq and Iran), fund additional Chinese oil imports without actually shelling out hard currency, and take the next step in China’s increasingly sophisticated approach to other people’s oil: gain control over the financing of oil production in both Iran and Iraq. Chinese national oil companies are already working on entering both the Iraqi and Iranian markets. But the Iraqi-Iranian bond approach will allow China to move ahead one more step in its plan. Years ago, China would simply buy oil abroad and bring it home. Then, as in Ecuador, it acquired revenues from oil sales in international markets. Now, China wants to gain control over the financing of oil production in other countries. And it looks like it’s going to work… This may take geopolitics in the oil sector to a whole new level. Tags: China http://oilandenergyinvestor.com/2016/04/china-is-about-to-take-control-of-global-oil-markets
  5. Peter Eerdmans is an economic prophet, “As interest in emerging market debt grows, bond markets are developing in size, depth and liquidity. Some countries such as Lebanon, Iraq, Tunisia, Panama and Guatemala only issue dollar government bonds but Mr Eerdmans expect this to change in the next decade to include issues in local currencies.” (read more: Interest in local currency bonds rise) Hello again my friends! There is so much talk in the news surrounding bond issuance that I thought I would take an opportunity to elaborate and give my short take on what it is I believe the GOI is doing. But first a quick educational session so that we are all up to speed. A government will be the issuer of a bond when it is looking to borrow money. The GOI sells the instrument and redeems it at a later date in time at a predetermined or fixed rate. At the end of the term (maturity) the investor cashes in the bond for the fixed amount. This is why monies received from bonds are called “fixed income” to the investor. For our purposes we will discuss EMLCB or Emerging Market Local Currency Bonds. What we see transpiring in Iraq is for all intents and purposes unprecedented because it is for the first time issuing EMLCB or another common phrase “emerging local market bonds.” Previously Iraq only issued bonds denominated in foreign currency (usd). Now we see them issuing bonds denominated in the iqd. Within the last couple of weeks we see both types of bonds being made available to add liquidity to the economy. The question many probably have is why LCBs? Issuing a bond in foreign denominations is a no-brainer as the investor is assured of the stability of the currency in which the bond is denominated….for Iraq it is the usd. Purchasing bonds in local/domestic currency serves a 2 dimensional purpose, 1) the hopes of receiving a fixed income upon bond maturity (same as foreign denominated bonds) and 2) the hopes of receiving capital gains if the domestic currency appreciates in value J Point #2 is the ONLY reason a foreign investor will purchase an EMLCB when they have the option of purchasing a less riskier foreign currency denominated one. Lastly, so that people don't think I am pulling my takes out of a hat, these bullet point items were taken from Investec's report "Emerging Markets Debt: the next 10 years": Borrowers would rather repay debt and interest in the same currency as their income. As international lenders gain more trust in the credibility of monetary and fiscal policies, they become increasingly willing to lend in local currencies Local currency bond issuance to dominate in an increasing number of emerging markets Economic growth, macro and political stability and market liquidity attract international investor interest as new markets present opportunities for diversification and potentially higher returns; We see the current trend of increasing foreign participation in emerging bond markets continuing at a steady pace – although not quite reaching developed market levels over the next ten years. I tried keeping it as short as possible while covering pertinent points. Thanks for reading, your mileage may vary . Be blessed my friends!
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