Sandy Ingram
The upcoming visit by the Iraqi Prime minister to Washington DC is a significant event packed with potential and fraught with challenges. The meeting is expected to address a range of issues from the fight against the Islamic State...to Iraqi financial reforms... As the clock ticks down to April 15, the world watches with bated breath. Will this be the turning point that ushers in a new era of cooperation between the United States and Iraq? Time as they say will tell.
Zimbabwe has a new structured currency... People will have 21 days from Friday April 5th to exchange their currency for the new structured currency...[We] were always concerned Iraq would use this same process to eliminate the millions of Iraqi dinar banknotes outside the country. If this were Iraq and not Zimbabwe, you would only have 21 days to exchange the currency within Iraq.Zimbabwe has a new structured currency...People will have 21 days from Friday April 5th to exchange their currency for the new structured currency...[We] were always concerned Iraq would use this same process to eliminate the millions of Iraqi dinar banknotes outside the country. If this were Iraq and not Zimbabwe, you would only have 21 days to exchange the currency within Iraq.
"RV UPDATE" BY SANDY INGRAM, 9 APRIL
Sandy Ingram
Iraq's prime minister will be in Washington, DC in less than 8 days to meet with President Biden.
The real effective exchange rate (REER) is a measure of the relative strength of a country's currency in relation to an index or basket of other major currencies. The REER is used to judge whether the country's currency is undervalued or overvalued or, ideally, fairly valued...
Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER)...It is an index of the weighted average of bilateral exchange rates of home currency with respect to a basket of currencies of trading partners. An increase in NEER indicates an appreciation of the local currency against the weighted basket of currencies of its trading partners.
Iraq's top five export trading partners are India, with $38.8 billion, China with $34 billion, the United States with $10.3 billion, South Korea with 8.21 billion, and Greece with $6.27 billion. Based on Iraq's export partners the Iraqi dinar definitely could be worth more. However everything is speculative until the US and Iraq give the green light to float, revalue, reinstate or increase the value of the Iraqi dinar...This could happen overnight but it is unlikely.
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