Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Iraq intends to connect its electricity with Kuwait and the Gulf at the end of the year, and then with Saudi Arabia , 23 July
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani confirmed on Sunday that his government intends to link Iraq's electricity with Kuwait and the Gulf Interconnection Authority at the end of 2024, and then move to link with Saudi Arabia to diversify energy sources when demand increases during peak times in the country.
Al-Sudani said in a speech during the opening of the Iraqi-Turkish electricity linkage project, "The value and importance of this project is that it had been suspended since 2004, and it had been planned since the nineties of the last century, and today it has been completed in coordination with the Turkish Ministry of Energy."
He added, "The value of this project is that for the first time we have an international connection with neighboring Turkey and then to the European Union, and this is an important and strategic factor for energy at the future level."
Al-Sudani added, "After we were able to connect with the Jordanian side, and today with Turkey, and hopefully at the end of this year with Kuwait and the Gulf Interconnection Authority, then we will head to complete our important project with Saudi Arabia so that Iraq can complete its communication with the regional energy system in a way that allows for diversity and exchange in various conditions of peak electrical loads." LINK
RV UPDATE BY KAPERONI, 23 JULY
Kaperoni
Community Comment: "Does this have a negative, positive or neutral effect on our investment?"
Article: "Mazhar Muhammad Salih: Our cash reserves are the highest and there are no fears of the dollar rising" This is good news.
--Kaperoni
Question: "So the RV tomorrow 3:00? Lol" You need to change your thinking. There is no RV, never will be one. The only way that dinar can go up in value is 'gradually' over time based on the success and growth of Iraq's own economy.
Kaperoni
Article: "Establishment of the Commercial Arbitration Center in Iraq" Article quote: "the importance of commercial communication with various countries around the world and organizing relations in a way that achieves mutual benefit for all parties, especially as Iraq is on the verge of rejoining the World Trade Organization (WTO). He explained
that this project comes as one of the achievements within the file of Iraq's accession to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)." WTO requirement. Establishment of the Commercial Arbitration Center in Iraq
Article quote: "new pipeline project at an amount estimated at approximately 6.5 billion Iraqi dinars ($4.9 billion)" Community Comment "The mathematical 'mistake' basically equals 1.32. This seems very very coincidental to the deletion of the zeros." Referencing the exchange rate in billions rather than trillions is an easy mistake to make. It happens all the time and everyone thinks there's something to it. Wrong.
Question: "What happens now that the auctions are soon to be over?
What does this mean for the Dinar holders out there Kap?" It means monetary policy is changing after 20 years to reflect the economic changes in Iraq. We'll have to wait and see what happens.
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Floating the currency is the best option but only once they have created a diverse economy that is not dependent solely on oil.
...New currencies coming out in Iraq. Not true, the Iraqi dinar is the currency of Iraq. As far as any new smaller denominations, they will be introduced only as needed if and when the value increases and warrants so. There is no significant RV!
--...The dinar to float at well over a dollar. Unlikely, the dinar when it floats will be whatever the current exchange rate is and could rise gradually accordingly.
Community comment: "Today the cbi says there are no new printing of bills"
That is correct. The Central Bank does not randomly print currency unless it's to replace damaged or worn out notes. There is no need for a new currency unless it is warranted. Moving to digital will eventually reduce physical notes.
Question: ----"They have a very largebudget ,without an increase in rate how do they meet the projects that is lined up?"
External expenses are paid in dollars since their primary revenue is dollars. Dinar is used to pay salaries, etc. in country.
CCommunity Comment: "Hopefully in the next 5 yrs we will see an appreciation of the currency price, based on the last year of progress." I agree! Iraq has an excellent opportunity now to diversify their economy and develop the banking system.
Much of the float articles that we have seen have concerns about speculators that is because they are referencing dealers speculating within the country. That will not happen.
The Central Bank of Iraq imposes financial penalties on banks and exchange companies amounting to 43 billion dinars , 23 JULY
The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sunday that fines imposed on banks and non-banking institutions (exchange companies) amounted to more than 43 billion Iraqi dinars during the past three months.
A table of the bank, which Shafaq News Agency reviewed, showed that the fines imposed on banks and financial companies during the past three months, starting from last April until the end of last June, amounted to 43 billion, 465 million, 532 thousand, and 931 dinars.
The table showed that “the fines also included 102 administrative penalties for these banks and non-banking institutions, distributed between warnings, alerts, and grace periods.”
The table showed that "May witnessed the highest fines on banks and non-financial institutions, as these fines reached 34 billion, 2 million, 141 thousand, and 100 dinars, with 42 administrative penalties, while June witnessed the lowest fines, reaching 2 billion, 829 million, 157 thousand, and 288 dinars, with 30 administrative penalties."
The table did not show the names of the banks that were fined and subjected to administrative penalties.
The Iraqi Stock Exchange Investors Association had criticised the Central Bank of Iraq’s increase in fines on banks, noting that it would affect the profitability of investors in the shares of these banks. LINK
RV UPDATE BY MARKZ, 23 JULY
MarkZ
[via PDK] There is so much going on this morning. There are all these rumors that they have the rate - but we can’t go to the bank yet. So take them with a bit of salt...
Folks in Geneva and the WTO are dead quiet. If they are trying to keep the RV quiet like Kuwait-they may be trying to keep the WTO news quiet until they have taken some of us in…and announced things publicly.
..once again I have some redemption center/banking folks that will be working part time this weekend. Not on call…but physically being asked to go in for a set number of hours…this is the second weekend in a row. Is it to throw us off and think it could go? I don’t know.
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Q & A WITH MARKZ
QUESTION: Can we still pick from a list for projects at our exchange ??? I also heard you can choose from projects they if we want to?
MZ: I have heard that – I have also heard we will be given access to those choices when we set our appointments so we are prepared when we get there.
QUESTION: Mark, do you think CMKX and PP’s would go before the humanitarian projects money?
MZ: No- I think they may go at about the same time.
QUESTION: Will we still be signing NDA’s?
MZ: I keep hearing mixed stuff. I am hearing now that if you don’t have historic bonds or Zim –there will not be an NDA. That is what I hear from banking contacts.
QUESTION: MarkZ, do you think the RV will happen in waves? First Dinar, then a few months later, VND?
MZ: No, I think they will still all go at the same time.
QUESTION: How will those sending out notifications emails to us know our email address?
MZ: Once again….if you joined a group early in this process….or bought currency with banks ect…they may have your email address….BUT…I suggest you subscribe to a Dinar site like Recaps or Chrinicles to get the information emailed from them to you when notifications come out. I have had 2 banks tell me they absolutely will send the information to Dinar Recaps and issue their instructions to them for their newsletter email list.
QUESTION: Mark, how many contacts do you have in total that are legitimate?
MZ: That’s always a tough one. They can be the best contacts on the planet. …. But, there is such a disinformation campaign going on it doesn’t matter if they are top level paymasters ect….but everything coming from a Treasury source is suspect because they have to confuse the timing. This disinformation is purposeful. I argue it is hurtful and not needed at this point.
https://dinarevaluation.blogspot.com/2024/07/q-with-markz-22-july.html
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