From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Decades of plundering: Where has Iraq's oil wealth gone? Ranked as the fourth-biggest oil producer in the world, many would assume that Iraq has the financial resources to weather the pandemic. But that […]
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Market Review: "Of Assassinations and Corporate Activities"
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: "Of Assassinations and Corporate Activities" A quiet start to the new year would have been welcome after the drama of the currency devaluation […]
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Market Review: "Stock Market Rallies on Currency Devaluation"
By Editor on 6th January 2021 in Ahmed Tabaqchali, Investment, Iraq Banking & Finance News, Politics
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: "Stock Market Rallies on Currency Devaluation" For Iraq and its equity market the year ended the same way it began, with a bang […]
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Market Review: Private Sector Deposit & Loan Growth Continues
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: "Private Sector Deposit & Loan Growth Continues" The market, as measured by the Rabee Securities RSISX USD Index (RSISUSD), was up 1.0% in […]
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Market Review: "Foreigners tip-toeing into the Market"
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: "Foreigners tip-toeing into the Market" The market, as measured by the Rabee Securities RSISX USD Index (RSISUSD), declined 1.6% in October, signalling a […]
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Tabaqchali: "Revisiting the Iraq Thesis, Five Years Later"
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: "Revisiting the Iraq Thesis, Five Years Later" June marked the five-year anniversary of the AFC Iraq Fund - conceived a year earlier amidst […]
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Market Review: "Not as Bad as Feared, but Still Pricing It"
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: "Not as Bad as Feared, but Still Pricing It" As May drew to a close the 'worst-case' prognosis for Iraq in the wake […]
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Virtual Roundtable: Iraq in Uncertain Times
From the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House). Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Participants: Toby Dodge, Associate Fellow, MENA Programme, Chatham House Mac Skelton, Director, IRIS, American University of Iraq-Sulaimani Ahmed Tabaqchali, Chief Investment Officer, AFC Iraq Fund Hanaa Edwar, Co-founder […]
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Market Review: “A Tale of Two Markets”
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. The year for Iraq, and its equity market, started with two momentous events that raised the feared spectre of a US-Iran proxy war fought in […]
Tabaqchali: US Sanctions and the Illusion of Power
By Editor on 30th January 2020 in Investment, Iraq Banking & Finance News, Iraq Industry & Trade News, Politics
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. This article was originally published by the LSE Middle East Centre. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Demands for the expulsion of US troops following the killing of Iranian general Qassem […]
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2019 Market Review and 2020 Outlook
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Stop the Press: Just as this article was being readied for publication, the news came of a US strike in Baghdad that targeted a car […]
Market Review: “Fundamentals on the Upswing ...”
By Ahmed Tabaqchali, CIO of Asia Frontier Capital (AFC) Iraq Fund. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Market Review: “Fundamentals on the Upswing, Market continues to Bottom” The demonstrations which resumed in the last week of October persisted into November and seem […]