07/16/2009 10:49AM
LUGANO, SWITZERLAND--(Marketwire - July 16, 2009) - New Holland Agriculture, the global manufacturer and seller of agricultural equipment, a CNH brand and part of the Fiat Group (MI: FIA), is supplying an additional 1,250 tractors to the Iraq government to foster economic growth in the country. The contract
07/16/2009 10:13AM
BAGHDAD – A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants.
The partnership between the Inma Agribusiness Program, U.S. Agency for International Development, and U.S. and Iraqi
06/04/2009 11:26AM
Iraq was the world’s 13th largest oil producer in 2008, and has the world’s third largest proven petroleum reserves after Saudi Arabia and Canada. Just a fraction of Iraq’s known fields are in development, and Iraq may be one of the few places left where vast reserves, proven and unknown, have barely
05/13/2009 10:26AM
OPEC Net Oil Export Revenues
Country
Nominal ($B)
Real (2000$B)
2008
2009
2010
Jan-Apr 2009
2008
2009
2010
Jan-Apr 2009
Algeria
$70
NA
NA
$10
$57
NA
NA
$8
Angola
$68
NA
NA
$10
$55
NA
NA
$8
Ecuador
$10
NA
NA
$1
$8
NA
NA
$1
Iran
$82
NA
02/03/2009 07:49AM
The earliest morning futures calls are:
- March corn called 2 to 5 cents lower.
- March soybeans called 9 to 12 cents lower.
- March CBOT wheat called 1 to 5 cents lower.
US dollar down 10, crude oil is down $.12 at $40, Dow is down 1.
Economic information:
API, American Petroleum
12/29/2008 07:45AM
BAGHDAD (AFP)--Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh warned of "vicious and dangerous" attempts to convert political and economic problems in Iraq to an Arab-Kurdish conflict.
He also criticized the slow progress in increasing national oil exports, although $8 billion have been poured into the sector
12/05/2008 11:25AM
BAGHDAD (Dow Jones)--A handful of major, international oil companies braved still-dicey security conditions here to attend the country's first significant petroleum conference, with several executives expressing hope they'd soon be setting up shop here.
The well-attended conference and the promise
10/31/2008 08:06AM
Babylon Province in Iraq is part of what was once known as the country's "Triangle of Death," an area that witnessed extremely high levels of violence during earlier periods of the current war in Iraq. Because the region is transforming, the U.S. Grains Council and the Iraq Poultry Fund (IPF) are working
08/18/2008 06:03PM
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The U.S. got more crude oil from Iraq than Alaska in June as imports from OPEC continued to top domestic production. A review of U.S. data shows that in 17 of 18 months dating to January 2007, crude-oil imports from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries exceeded U.S