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Paris, 18 April 2012 -- Western sanctions have halved Syria's foreign reserves and should be stepped up to force Damascus to comply with a U.N.-backed peace plan, France's foreign minister said on ...
18 April 2012 -- The first Bloomberg Doha Conference, organized by Bloomberg LINK in partnership with the Qatar Financial Centre Authority ("QFC Authority"), ended successfully today. The two day conference ...
18 April 2012 -- National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), the largest Kuwaiti bank and the highest-rated in the Middle East, reported net profits of $292m (KD81.0m) for the first quarter of 2012 compared with ...
18 April 2012 -- Africa will accelerate to 4.2 percent this year from 3.5 percent in 2011.
The economies of oil importers will expand by 2.2 percent and crude exporters by 4.8 percent, the Washington-based ...
Baghdad, 17 April 2012 -- Premier Nouri al-Maliki chaired the Ministerial Committee for Reconstruction and Service.
Baghdad, 17 April 2012 -- The Central Bank of Iraq’s (CBI) dollar sales went up to $169,092 million on Monday, compared to $107.398 million in the previous session.
17 April 2012 -- Iraqi Central Bank coffers are reported to be brimming with hard cash, and senior officials say they are concerned about its independence.
Erbil, 17 April 2012 -- The Iraqi government has allocated 100bn IQD ($85m) from the 2012 budget to kick start loss-making state-owned companies and make them profitable.
Baghdad, 17 April 2012 -- The Ministry of State for Women's Affairs has granted about 10m dinars' worth of bank loans for women.
16 April 2012 -- Iraq has decided to hold off on a plan to knock three zeros off the nominal value of bank notes of its currency because it does not believe the economic climate is suitable, the cabinet ...
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