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Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 22nd January 2015). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,273 (-1.5%) / $1,358 (-1.2%) (weekly change) (-8.6% and -8.4% YTD change, respectively). The number of week traded […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 15th January 2015). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,292 / $1,375 (-7.2%) (weekly change). The number of week traded shares was 4.3bn and the weekly trading […]

GDP Forecasters See 2015 Rebound

By Mark A. DeWeaver. Last month Barcelona-based economics consultancy FocusEconomics launched an interesting new product—a survey of professional forecasters for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The section on the Iraqi economy is particularly useful given the lack of attention this subject normally receives. It includes consensus projections for 25 macro variables going […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 1st January 2015). Note: ISX will be closed during December 30, 2014 - January 6, 2015 due to the end-of-year closing operations. The next session will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Please click here to download a table of listed companies […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 25th December 2014). Note: ISX will be closed during December 30, 2014 - January 6, 2015 due to the end-of-year closing operations. The next session will be held on Wednesday, January 7, 2015. Please click here to download a table of listed companies […]

Germany Continues to Encourage Investment in KRI

Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister, Nechirvan Barzani, on Monday received Mr. Georg Enzweiler, on the occasion of his appointment as Germany’s new Consul General to the Kurdistan Region. Mr. Enzweiler expressed his pleasure to be appointed as his country’s Consul General to Kurdistan Region and hoped to further develop bilateral relations between Germany and the […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 11th December 2014). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,373 (+0.2%)/ $1,489 (+0.2%) (weekly change) (-26.4% and -25.0% YTD change, respectively). The number of week traded shares […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 4th December 2014). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,370 (+0.2%)/ $1,486 (+0.3%) (weekly change) (-26.5% and -25.2% YTD change, respectively). The number of week traded shares […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 27th November 2014). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,368 (-1.0%)/ $1,482 (-0.8%) (weekly change) (-26.7% and -25.4% YTD change, respectively). The number of week traded shares […]

Iraq Stock Market Report

Advertising Feature Rabee Securities Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) market report (week ending: 20th November 2014). Please click here to download a table of listed companies and their associated ticker codes. The RSISX index ended the week at ID1,382 (-0.1%)/ $1,493 (-0.1%) (weekly change) (-25.9% and -24.8% YTD change, respectively). The number of week traded shares […]

Shake-up Planned for Erbil Stock Exchange

By John Lee. At a meeting of the Economic Council of the Kurdistan Region on Monday, the progress in setting up the Erbil Stock Exchange (ESX) was reviewed, and it looks like a shake-up in personnel can be expected. A statement from the KRG read: "In order for the Exchange to operate according to the […]

Successful Rights Offering for WesternZagros

By John Lee. WesternZagros Resources has announced the successful closing of its rights offering which expired on November 14, 2014. The Rights Offering, together with the equity backstop arrangement provided by the Company's largest shareholder, Crest Energy International LLC, generated CDN$200 million in gross proceeds to the Company which will be used to fund development […]