Iraq Business News brings you the latest Iraq Stock Exchange news.
According to a report from Rabee Securities, the Iraq Securities Commission (ISC) is suspending trading in the companies listed below, starting Monday, August 8th, 2011. The reason is their violation of instruction # (14) related to financial disclosure; their failure to submit their annual reports for 2010 and/or quarterly financial reports for first quarter 2011 […]
The Iraqi Stock Exchange announced that it held 237 trading sessions last year, during which the 25.56 billion shares worth 400 billion dinars ($339m) changed hands. The Director of the Iraqi Securities Market, Taha Ahmed Abdul Salam, said the market index (which includes 40 companies) closed at 10,098 points in the last session of 2010. […]
The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) will be closed from September 9-13 due to the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr. Trading will resume on September 14. Border crossings and airports in Kurdistan will remain open.
AK News reports that the Erbil Stock Exchange has opened for business. "The Kurdistan regional government (KRG) has continually strived to create an environment for the local businessmen and traders to have shares in the local companies of Kurdistan," the secretary of the high economic council of KRG, Izzat Mullah said. Erbil stock market is […]
By Mark A. DeWeaver, of Quantrarian Asia Hedge Two good rules for emerging stock market investors have always been: (1) buy crises and (2) buy export booms. The first would have worked well in Sri Lanka in the weeks following the Tamil Tiger suicide attack on the country’s main airport in July, 2001. Had you […]
The Iraq Stock Exchange expects to boost business by 50 percent once new securities legislation is in place as new foreign investment i drawn in.
