Saturday, September 5, 2020

WOTS FRI SEP 4 2020

 WOTS FRI SEP 4 2020



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Today, the foreign currency markets in Iraq recorded a stable exchange rate of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar. 
The prices of selling and buying dollars in exchange companies and offices were as follows:

The selling price of one dollar was 1235 dinars, or 123 thousand and 500 dinars for one hundred dollars.

The purchase price of the dollar is 1225 dinars, or 122 thousand and 500 dinars for one hundred dollars.  


The Markets:
The Asian markets closed down NIK by 1.11% HSI by 1.25% SHANG by .87%
The UK markets are currently trading in the green from .49% to 1.69%
Our futures are currently in the green the DOW at  28573 up by .78% SNP at  3481 by .59% NDX at 11793 down by .06%

Precious Metals:
Gold is green  at 1939  Silver is green at 27.07 Copper is green  at 301  PLatinum is green  at 913 
Brent 44 WTi 41

Favorite Currencies Forex Quotes

SymbolBidAskHighLowOpenChangeTime
 USD/IQD  1164.3000  1215.0000 1193.4000 1193.4000 1193.4000  0.0000 06:08
 USD/VND  23175.0000  23176.0000 23168.5300 23164.1900 23164.1900  5.1100 00:45
 USD/CNY  6.8349  6.8369 6.8460 6.8346 6.8459  -0.0111 05:21
 USD/KWD  0.3053  0.3063 0.3056 0.3055 0.3056  -0.0002 04:46
 GBP/USD  1.3294  1.3296 1.3318 1.3255 1.3277  0.0015 05:21
 USD/IRR  42000.0000  42210.0000 43011.9000 43011.9000 43011.9000  -43.1000 04:44
 USD/IDR  14731.0000  14731.0000 14804.0000 14535.0000 14736.0000  -21.0000 05:20

Things in the News:

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Iraqi Articles:

Iraq is moving to join global trade … and an Arab country: We will facilitate its mission

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Iraq opened the file for its accession to the World Trade Organization.

A statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of which the Euphrates News Agency received a copy, said: “The Chargé d’Affairs, Minister Plenipotentiary {Abbas Kazem Obeid} met in Geneva the head of the working group on Iraq’s accession to the World Trade Organization, Ambassador Omar Hilal / Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations in New York, In the presence of the Director of the WTO’s Accession Department, Ms. Maika Oshikawa, and her assistance at the Organization’s headquarters.

The two sides exchanged, according to the statement, “talking about ways to activate the file of Iraq’s accession to the organization and the importance of continuing work in completing the technical documents to complete the requirements for accession and overcome the obstacles and challenges facing the accession process.”

The statement indicated that “it was agreed to prepare training programs for members of the national negotiating team, as well as discuss the importance of setting a new date for the high-level conference on Iraq’s accession to the World Trade Organization, which was supposed to be held in Baghdad for the period 26-27 / 11/2019. “.

Last Thursday, Moroccan state television – Channel 1 – announced that Moroccan Ambassador Omar Hilal, head of the working group concerned with Iraq’s accession to the World Trade Organization, held a series of meetings with the parties participating in the World Trade Organization last week in Geneva. Activating the file of integrating Iraq into this organization.

On the other hand, identical sources indicated that these meetings follow a telephone conversation that Ambassador Omar Hilal had held during the past month of July, with the Minister of Trade, Alaa Ahmed Hassan Al-Jubouri.

The same source added that during the aforementioned meeting, the two sides agreed to activate negotiations, with a view to speeding up the process of the Iraqi Republic’s accession to the World Trade Organization.

Here it is noteworthy that Ambassador Omar Hilal, Chairman of the Working Group on Iraq’s Accession, had a discussion with the Director General of the World Trade Organization, Roberto Azevedo, and held a working session with the Deputy Director General in charge of accession operations, Alan Wolf, as well as with Mika Oshikawa, Director of the Accession Operations Department, Where Wolff pledged to work to sensitize the countries of the World Trade Organization, in order to facilitate the process of joining Iraq.

On the other hand, according to a report by MAP, he highlighted that Ambassador Omar Hilal held bilateral meetings with ambassadors and permanent representatives in Geneva, and the main countries participating in this process, especially the European Union, Switzerland, Russia, China and Saudi Arabia, in their capacity as coordinator of the Arab Group He also had a fruitful phone conversation with the representative of the United States, who was in Washington.

The report also highlighted that the interlocutors of Moroccan Hilal were unanimous in expressing thanks and praise for Morocco’s tireless efforts aimed at re-launching the process of Iraq’s accession to the World Trade Organization, in the difficult context of the “Covid-19” epidemic.

On the other hand, the aforementioned source added that the Moroccan diplomat held a virtual working session from Baghdad, with Adel Al-Masoudi, Director General of Foreign Economic Relations at the Ministry of Trade and head of the delegation in charge of negotiations, and this meeting constituted an occasion for the Iraqi side, in order to reaffirm his commitment to redouble efforts in order to prepare All documents required to join.

To this end, the Iraqi side requested technical assistance for the benefit of the various ministerial sectors concerned in order to form an effective negotiation team, capable of enabling Iraq to better negotiate its interests during this process, which will be long and arduous, and this virtual working session was completed by coordination meetings held with the mission. Al-Iraqiya, with Abbas Kazem Obeid, the Iraqi ambassador to Geneva.

In order to mobilize the necessary financial contributions for technical assistance, training and strengthening the capabilities required by the Iraqi authorities, Hilal held a virtual working session with representatives of the World Bank in both Baghdad and Beirut. On the other hand, the head of the working group called in a meeting with the director of technical assistance for the mall International to strengthen technical support for the benefit of the Iraqi delegation.

The re-launch of the process of Iraq’s accession to the World Trade Organization comes in a positive context, reinforced by encouraging signs following the formation of the new Iraqi government led by Mustafa Al-Kazemi, as the latter expressed his aspiration to open up to its regional and international surroundings.

Thus, Al-Kazemi aims to fight corruption, and to carry out many reforms in the country, especially at the level of the judicial system, as well as to implement the necessary economic transformation so that oil is not primarily dependent on oil as a major source of Iraq’s GNP, by focusing on diversifying his income through Promote the sectors of agriculture, livestock, agricultural industries and trade.

On the eve of these preliminary discussions, led by Hilal Maghribi in Geneva, the World Bank published a report on the economic situation in Iraq.

This report stresses the importance of the country’s accession to the World Trade Organization, which will help complete many reforms, through binding international commitments, and enable Iraq to benefit from a multilateral trading system that is transparent, extrapolable, and based on rules.

Oil is consolidating near $ 44 and heading for a weekly decline due to demand concerns  

Oil holds close to $ 44 and is heading towards its biggest weekly decline since June, as numbers indicating weak demand are added to concerns about a slow recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

A US government report showed a drop in domestic demand for gasoline in the latest week.

Official data revealed that stocks of intermediate distillates in Singapore, a center for oil storage in Asia, rose above the highest level in nine years.

Brent crude rose five cents, or 0.1 percent, to $ 44.12 a barrel with the opening of European markets, and is heading for a 2.3 percent drop for the week.
US West Texas Intermediate crude fell three cents to $ 41.34 and is heading for its first weekly decline in five weeks.

The focus today is on the US jobs data due for release today, which may trigger selling as the expected slowdown in employment outpaced estimates.

The unemployment rate is expected to drop to 9.8 percent from 10.2 percent.

"Demand concerns are deeply rooted in the forefront and center of dealers' attention," said Stephen Brennock of BPM oil brokerage.

Analysts at FGE say that the high global infection with Corona virus and the renewed imposition of general isolation measures will dash hopes of withdrawing from oil stocks for some time.
FGE added that refiners continued to face pressure to keep operating rates low.

Oil recovered from April, when Brent fell to a 21-year low at less than $ 16 a barrel, and US crude briefly recorded a negative value.

But a record supply cut since May implemented by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, a group known as OPEC +, provides price support.

OPEC began easing cuts in August and raised production by about 1 million bpd, according to a Reuters survey.


Parliamentary Finance issues a statement on the economic and financial reform paper

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While we are waiting for the government to present the economic and financial reform paper to the House of Representatives according to what was stipulated in the Domestic and Foreign Borrowing Law, which has not yet been submitted, despite the passage of time specified by the law, which is 60 days from the date of its approval. We see its signs, neither word nor deed. Rather, the government has ignored all the reform texts contained in that law.
We are surprised by decisions and appointments in sensitive and highly important centers in the Ministry of Finance and other relevant institutions that are not in the public interest with anything, since most of those issued these The orders against them, all of which are subordinated to the phrase “according to the book of the Prime Minister’s Office,” their employment history is marred by many suspicions and failures, and this will negatively affect any real intention or step for reform and will cast a shadow over a decline greater than it is now in the financial and economic file.
And based on the legal and moral responsibility entrusted to us as a regulatory and legislative body, we will have a firm and strict position as a result of those measures that adopted the mood and favoritism in their approval by the government and the Ministry of Finance, which unfortunately we did not see any cooperation or consultation with the legislative authority. Represented by the House of Representatives in general and the Finance Committee in particular during the previous period of the current government’s life.

CBI, ISX,Dinar Guru:

CBI Update:  Just  a note:
They have been having auctions and the ISX has been trading regularly the sites just don't update in time to put the information in this report, unless it is 
here.   
 
Click on the link above for the latest update.

The CBI for rate is 1190.
 

The currency auction total sales amount $ 0. Friday

  including   $ 0. cash Friday

ISX Update:   

www.isx-iq.net/

Shares Traded: not updated for today
Value Traded: not updated for today 

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9-4-2020   Intel Guru Frank26  ...the GCC wants Iraq IQD in the currency basket of the Middle East in the near future, then they want them to go 1 to 1 with the American dollar like all the other GCC currencies that are in this Arabic basket.  Iraq is the only Arabic country that is not in the GCC.  Trump wants them to join so it becomes 1 to 1 but also when they join Iraq will lessen their necessity on Iran's needs. They will work more with GCC countries...if Iraq joins the GCC and if they utilize their own currency with a peg to the U.S. dollar, well then there's your reinstatement...
9-3-2020   Newshound/Intel Guru RVAlready  The QFS will prevent the theft of huge amounts of money, which was stolen in the past under swift. It also provides a fair and level playing field for all countries to operate.

9-3-2020   Intel Guru MarkZ   [via PDK]   I am hearing a lot of chatter…but cannot prove if Swift is dead yet or not…I have been chasing bankers trying to prove or disprove info about the swift system…almost all of them –conclusively say that yes- they are upgrading their system for “near instant” transfers. They see the changes coming. Part of them have updated now- part of them haven’t but I do not believe swift is totally dead yet. No banker will tell me that “yes it’s dead” only that it is ending in Sept, and everyone will be on new system for interbank transfers and country to country transfers now...  ...they are in the middle of a transition…and that a number of their transactions now are “near instant”

9-3-2020  Newshound Guru Pimpy   Article:  "Iraq: Al Kazemi prevents militia flags and religious banners from being raised over government buildings"   Basically the whole article is saying the only flag you're allowed to wave in our country is our country's flag.  Period.  Iraq flag.  Because they want to be a united country...Al-Kazemi is lowering the boom down...forget all these separations of people...Kazemi is saying enough.  We are one country.  We are one people.  We are one nation.  Period.  I love this move.  I know it sounds minor but to me it's big.  It sends a clear message that they are united and that's what the world is looking for...

9-3-2020    Newshound Guru Jeff  ...In the media they've told you what the delays were.   They told you there were two of them.  The beginning of the year was the formation of the government.  And then after that was the Kurdistan and Baghdad reaching an agreement...now that the articles are suggesting that they're now at the end of completing that comprehensive agreement, articles have now transitioned to talk about Iraq rejoining the international world...

9-3-2020   Newshound/Intel Guru Mnt Goat   Article:  "IRAQ BRINGS IN $72.1M IN CUSTOMS REVENUE FOR AUGUST: FEDERAL CUSTOMS AUTHORITY"  Al-Kazemi is getting these financial reforms in place and fianally they are working...

9-3-2020   Intel Guru MarkZ   [via PDK]   Not really expecting any news until overnight tonight…just big anticipation that tonight starts the rollout somewhere between 11pm and 2 AM. …Hopefully we will have solid news by tomorrow morning. [I have heard tomorrow will be a “magical” Friday.]  I am so ready for one of those…I think we all are. ...We are watching it roll out…My people said it would roll out in September and get very quiet except for disinformation…all my real connected people have been really quiet. They just said the plan is set - its moving forward. Just hang on...There really is a lot of misinformation right now…

9-3-2020   Newshound Guru MilitiaMan   Report:  "New Currency, Fiscal and Monetary Policies Guidelines for the Transitional Government of Iraq"   ...The report shows what was from the past and what is needed into the future. By all the study we have under our belts, I can see this report as massive support they are in fact going to a market economy and will raise the rate of the IQD to support that effort! ...imo...

9-3-2020   Intel Guru Frank26  ...I believe in my heart that...there is a transparency change coming.  We are seeing a change to the global financial system.  I don't believe in the GCR.  I believe in the GFS.  The global financial system is completely being changed...I'd like to suggest that this Quantitative Financial System that's being brought is an evolution to the banking system.  Where banks will never function the same way.  It is a completely different model.  A completely different system.  A completely different language-coded...the Iraqi dinar has been beat up and abused...but Donald Trump put this together...What do you think Kazemi had a nice conversation about this past week?    
 
9-3-2020    Newshound Guru Jeff  ...around all these articles talking about the comprehensive agreement [between Kurdistan & Baghdad] we have new transitional articles.   These new articles now are talking about Iraq going international and joining the international world That's what the next round of articles are talking about...Iraq becoming and going international, joining the international world.  In addition to that on August 20th you had a whole bunch of U.S. companies sign $8 billion worth of contracts...Iraq is ready to jump out and join the international world.  That's not my opinion that's right here in print.  It's factual...

9-3-2020   Intel Guru Bruce   [via WiserNow]   ...even though this journey is going longer than we all thought -  I am still excited...  it is to a point where the QFS would be fully operational – which I understand it is...we believe the Swift is gone for the very most part we have to confirm this but I believe it is...we’ve got a system that is functioning without the ability of it being hacked that is a very positive thing for us moving forward -  and I know that’s going to be very valuable.   ...We understand that the roll out is to occur for all of us in this week the 1st – 8th  which is Tuesday thru Tuesday...You know we have UN operational rates changing on the 15th - that should be changing from where the public could actually see those on the UN operational website page...


Catnip's Corner:
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ARTICLE 1-A (from PM Kadhimi's website; posted only on Arabic side, not on English side)

Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi receives a leadership delegation from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan 

The Prime Minister, Mr. Mustafa Al-Kazemi, received a leading delegation from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, headed by Mr. Lahore Sheikh Genki, the co-chair of the union.

The meeting witnessed a review of the most important security and service challenges facing government work, in addition to the political and economic files at the national level, and everything that would strengthen the foundations of cooperation, integration in work and development between federal government institutions and government institutions in the Kurdistan region.

The Prime Minister also stressed, during the meeting, the importance of joint action within the Iraqi security system, in order to secure the Iraqi arena against ISIS terrorist cells, and what remains of remnants seize opportunities to emerge after they received severe blows that culminated in the Iraqi victory over terrorism.

Media Office of the Prime Minister
3-Sep-2020

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ARTICLE 1-B (from PM Kadhimi's website; posted only on Arabic side, not on English side)

The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mr. Mustafa Al-Kazemi visits the headquarters of the Joint Operations Command 

Today, Thursday, the Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mr. Mustafa Al-Kazemi, visited the headquarters of the Joint Operations Command in Baghdad. He was received by the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Deputy Commander of Joint Operations, and the Head of the Counter-Terrorism Service.

Upon his arrival, His Excellency held a meeting with the security and military leaders, listened to a detailed presentation on the security situation in all regions of the country and the military capabilities available to protect the borders, and issued a set of directives.

Mr. Al-Kazemi praised the great efforts made by the various types of security services in warding off the threat of terrorism and providing stability in the country, and affirmed that he is betting on the heroic security forces in providing security, in a way that enhances the citizen's confidence in the state and makes him feel reassured.

His Excellency stressed the importance of activating the intelligence effort of the armed forces, to face the great security challenges in Iraq, which require unconventional action to confront them, including activating the intelligence work.

Mr. Al-Kazemi affirmed that the government has inherited a heavy legacy of uncontrolled weapons and tribal conflicts, which have become a real threat to society and threaten its members, and are also working to hinder the efforts of reconstruction and development in the country, and he directed the leaders of the security services to follow this file and joint coordination between the security forces to work with all available efforts. To end it, impose the prestige of the state, and confront everything that threatens the security and stability of the country.

Media Office of the Prime Minister
3-Sep-2020

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ARTICLE 2 (from Government of Iraq twitter account)

At the time this report was submitted, there are no new tweets posted on the Government of Iraq twitter account.

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ARTICLE 3

The International Coalition: We operate from a few locations in Iraq and its forces are able to prevent the return of ISIS

3/9/2020 21:34 
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The spokesman for the International Coalition Forces, Colonel Miles Keigens, confirmed that the Iraqi forces are able to prevent the return of ISIS and ward off the threat of terrorism, in statements that followed information that spoke about the United States' intention to reduce its forces in Iraq.
Keggins said in a press statement, that the Iraqi security forces have demonstrated "a great deal of heroism in their fight against ISIS .. Back in 2014, the organization crossed a third of the area of Iraq, and since that date, the International Coalition Forces, Iraqi forces and the Peshmerga ... have participated in the fight to annex." Defeat ISIS. "
And he added, "Now there are remnants of ISIS lying in a number of hideouts in the mountains, caves and desert valleys .. Its members are unable to keep lands, and there are no residents under their control, and it is difficult for them to spread around the world .. And this was thanks to the great efforts made by the Iraqi security forces." With the support of the international coalition. "
"The United States forces and the international coalition remain in Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government, as we support our partners with a high level of advice, share intelligence information with them, and carry out air strikes in military operations against ISIS," Kings added.
He pointed out that "Iraqi forces have more than 300,000 army, police and counter-terrorism forces, and these forces are more trained and equipped with weapons and equipment than before, and they are more than capable of preventing ISIS from returning again."
The spokesman for the international coalition forces in Iraq confirmed that the support provided by the international coalition to the Iraqi forces is continuing.
Keggins said: “Against the backdrop of the success of the Iraqi security forces on the ground and in the air against ISIS, the coalition forces withdrew outside the bases in 2020, and from some training sites that we have worked in over six years to train more than 240,000 Iraqi forces that have participated. Successfully in the fight against ISIS. "
"Now we are working from a few locations where we have made advising more centralized ... In Baghdad and Erbil we have coalition officers from more than 13 countries, including Sweden, Spain and France, who sit side by side with Iraqi officers to plan operations against ISIS, and they also share." Intelligence information, as well as air support that is coordinated in the operations center in Iraq and Erbil, according to the request of the Iraqi forces.
He concluded by saying that these operations centers provide “assistance to the Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi security forces that coordinate missions to defeat ISIS along the Hamrin Mountains and the Qara Jog Mountain, and places where the organization still possesses a small number of its members carrying out low-level attacks .. Therefore the support that is It is provided by the coalition continuously from central locations far away, with a small number of its forces that do not include combat forces in their ranks. "
The American Wall Street Journal quoted, a few days ago, US officials as saying that the United States will reduce the number of its forces in Iraq to about three thousand and five hundred soldiers, that is, about a third.
The newspaper pointed out that US officials confirmed that the US Department of Defense will reduce troop levels by about a third during the next two or three months.
This would bring US troop levels back to what they were in 2015, when the United States was in the first phase of its campaign against ISIS, according to the newspaper.
There are currently about five thousand and two hundred American soldiers in Iraq, who are deployed in several bases distributed over the governorates of Anbar, Erbil and the outskirts of the capital, Baghdad.
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ARTICLE 4

After his return to Paris, Macron: We will work with our partners to mobilize the international community for Iraq

 3/9/2020 20:56 • 
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Macron said in a tweet to him on Twitter after concluding his visit to Iraq, which lasted for hours on Thursday, and spent two days before that in Beirut, "Thank you my dear [President of Iraq] Barham Salih, and to all the political authorities, for welcoming you to Baghdad."
"We have many challenges ahead of us, and I want to support the Iraqi people. You can count on my commitment with you, and we will work with our partners to mobilize the international community," he added.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited Iraq yesterday for hours and met with the three presidencies and a group of Iraqi leaders and leaders, including the President of the Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, who came to Baghdad for the meeting.
Emmanuel Macron stressed during the meetings on the sovereignty of Iraq and the announcement of a road map for the situation in the country.
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ARTICLE 5

Representative culture stresses interest in antiquities and tourism in areas affected by terrorism

3/9/2020 20:13
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The head of the Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Committee in the House of Representatives called on the Director of the Reconstruction Fund for Affected Areas to the need to pay attention to the cultural, archaeological and tourism aspects in the areas affected by the military and terrorist operations in the country.
Today, during her visit to the Director of the Reconstruction Fund for Affected Areas in Iraq, Muhammad Al-Ani, the head of the committee, Samia Al-Ghalab, confirmed that "the cultural aspects, in all their names, can contribute to changing the deteriorating reality left by ISIS criminal gangs in the liberated areas that were affected by military operations during the liberation period." .
She pointed out, "Changing the cultural and tourism reality will have an impact on all extremist ideas, especially for those who were shocked by them during periods of brutal attacks during the occupation of those areas by ISIS," adding that "reviving them will have a great impact on reviving these aspects and restoring life to them to advance their reality." ".
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