TNT:
Iko Ward: France was down 4.23%, now up .02%. Can you say "volatile"? Sure you can.
France back down to -4.72%. Guess they got the memo, the one that says if we don't RV now you in beau coup trouble.
Gold just shot up $20.00 Guess they didn't get the memo, or maybe they did and trying to hedge
Dunner: IKO... Is that jump larger than usual for gold.
Iko Ward : Dunner, that spike means a big player just purchased a lot of metal.
Crude is also fluctuating this morning. This volatility is all good for us, folks.
France just bounced back to -.92% Graph starting to look like my grand dads tree saw.
The entire planet's in the red except us, of course. Can you say "manipulation"? Sure you can.
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Iko Ward: France was down 4.23%, now up .02%. Can you say "volatile"? Sure you can.
France back down to -4.72%. Guess they got the memo, the one that says if we don't RV now you in beau coup trouble.
Gold just shot up $20.00 Guess they didn't get the memo, or maybe they did and trying to hedge
Dunner: IKO... Is that jump larger than usual for gold.
Iko Ward : Dunner, that spike means a big player just purchased a lot of metal.
Crude is also fluctuating this morning. This volatility is all good for us, folks.
France just bounced back to -.92% Graph starting to look like my grand dads tree saw.
The entire planet's in the red except us, of course. Can you say "manipulation"? Sure you can.
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SweetCheeks: Iko u think we're in trouble. Or are they going to get this done
Iko Ward: Sweet, they are getting it done, they just aren't letting us into the shop to see the progress.
Sweetcheeks: Iko we thinking days or weeks
Iko Ward: Sweet, I'm thinking hours, most likely tonight after all the banks are closed. But then I thought that last week and the week before that
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NewCreation: IKO Been reading, thanks for the education....I also heard we are watching to see if Bad Guys Dump 10 Billion Ounces of Electronic Silver on the COMEX and force the price to $0/oz and shut down the exchange? hearing they can with a "Click of a Mouse
Phantom2: IKO earlier you posted the price of gold needs to drop in order for currency to be asset backed, is that a prerequisite for our exchange also?
Gtov725: IKO you told us of the red zone, if we are not there, who is the manipulator and we have been told it is not the USA?
New Creation: Gtov...the little man downstairs under the stock exchange floor, has the switch...and has had it for years...its total manipulation...IMO
Iko Ward: Well, crude at 39.80 and falling. Gold at 1180 and climbing. France coming up for air. Darn it I love this job.
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New Creation: elmerf...you scared me yesterday saying OKIE was married...I’ve been working on my proposal for a year! DRATS! (Hope Debra is a Guitar:):)
Elmerf123456: Okie loves the Ladies. He likes to joke around.
Elmerf123456: Keep Okie in your prayers. He's dealing with a nagging situation that may have a need for immediate surgery. Mentally he's great, physically, some real issues.
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Mangelo: Dec 4 A Chinese central bank official said on Friday the inclusion of the yuan into the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) would be a starting point for China's financial reforms.
Xing Yujing, director general of the No.2 monetary policy department of the People's Bank of China, told a news conference that yuan's admission into the SDR basket would help improve price discoverability for the currency.
Yujing said China would continue to steadily push forward yuan convertibility under the capital account.
The International Monetary Fund admitted China's yuan into its benchmark currency basket on Monday, a victory for Beijing's campaign for recognition as a global economic power. (Reporting By Kevin Yao; Editing by Sam Holmes)
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Dinar Updates:
Q: [We saw the exchange rate go to 1182, many said that was for the 2 percent, Millionday says it was for cost of living/ inflation and was a requirement. People all day have said that the 2 percent deal has to go for 90 days. Are all of these things falling into the same category or different issues.]
BGG When the timing is right - they will "magically" be within the required range - and will have been for the required length of time...that is MHO.
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Emailed to Recaps:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Advanced Notice of a Meeting under Expedited Procedures
It is anticipated that the closed meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at 4:00 PM on Friday, December 4, 2015, will be held under expedited procedures, as set forth in section 26lb.7 of the Board's Rules Regarding Public Observation of Meetings, at the Board's offices at 20th Street and C Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The following items of official Board business are tentatively scheduled to be considered at that meeting.
Meeting Date: Friday, December 4, 2015
Matter(s) Considered: Bank Supervisory Matter.
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Iko Ward: Sweet, they are getting it done, they just aren't letting us into the shop to see the progress.
Sweetcheeks: Iko we thinking days or weeks
Iko Ward: Sweet, I'm thinking hours, most likely tonight after all the banks are closed. But then I thought that last week and the week before that
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NewCreation: IKO Been reading, thanks for the education....I also heard we are watching to see if Bad Guys Dump 10 Billion Ounces of Electronic Silver on the COMEX and force the price to $0/oz and shut down the exchange? hearing they can with a "Click of a Mouse
Phantom2: IKO earlier you posted the price of gold needs to drop in order for currency to be asset backed, is that a prerequisite for our exchange also?
Gtov725: IKO you told us of the red zone, if we are not there, who is the manipulator and we have been told it is not the USA?
New Creation: Gtov...the little man downstairs under the stock exchange floor, has the switch...and has had it for years...its total manipulation...IMO
Iko Ward: Well, crude at 39.80 and falling. Gold at 1180 and climbing. France coming up for air. Darn it I love this job.
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New Creation: elmerf...you scared me yesterday saying OKIE was married...I’ve been working on my proposal for a year! DRATS! (Hope Debra is a Guitar:):)
Elmerf123456: Okie loves the Ladies. He likes to joke around.
Elmerf123456: Keep Okie in your prayers. He's dealing with a nagging situation that may have a need for immediate surgery. Mentally he's great, physically, some real issues.
************
Mangelo: Dec 4 A Chinese central bank official said on Friday the inclusion of the yuan into the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) would be a starting point for China's financial reforms.
Xing Yujing, director general of the No.2 monetary policy department of the People's Bank of China, told a news conference that yuan's admission into the SDR basket would help improve price discoverability for the currency.
Yujing said China would continue to steadily push forward yuan convertibility under the capital account.
The International Monetary Fund admitted China's yuan into its benchmark currency basket on Monday, a victory for Beijing's campaign for recognition as a global economic power. (Reporting By Kevin Yao; Editing by Sam Holmes)
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Dinar Updates:
Q: [We saw the exchange rate go to 1182, many said that was for the 2 percent, Millionday says it was for cost of living/ inflation and was a requirement. People all day have said that the 2 percent deal has to go for 90 days. Are all of these things falling into the same category or different issues.]
BGG When the timing is right - they will "magically" be within the required range - and will have been for the required length of time...that is MHO.
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Emailed to Recaps:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Advanced Notice of a Meeting under Expedited Procedures
It is anticipated that the closed meeting of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at 4:00 PM on Friday, December 4, 2015, will be held under expedited procedures, as set forth in section 26lb.7 of the Board's Rules Regarding Public Observation of Meetings, at the Board's offices at 20th Street and C Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C.
The following items of official Board business are tentatively scheduled to be considered at that meeting.
Meeting Date: Friday, December 4, 2015
Matter(s) Considered: Bank Supervisory Matter.
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Dnari131: Just in time for the budget with citizen reform toyz gift wrapped for vote
Religious authority demanded the demonstrators to go to the Green Zone after Thacadhm in the arena of pretending
Friday, December 4, 2015 11:52
Religious authority demanded the demonstrators to go to the Green Zone after Thacadhm in the arena of pretending
BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News / .. student religious authority, Uday Assam, on Friday, protesters, pretending to go to the arenas in all governorates of Iraq, especially Baghdad.
Assam, said in an interview with / for Baghdadi News /, said that "on the demonstrators to take to the squares to demonstrate this afternoon, and to demand the rights of the Iraqi people and the fight against financial and administrative corruption, as well as negligence in the performance of their accounting."
He threatened the government with "the demonstrators to enter the Green Zone, unless the demands of the demonstrators carried the actual reforms and direct, over the next few days," .anthy 21 and /
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Walkingstick: Parliamentary Legal reveal about the readiness of the general amnesty law to a vote as amended
Friday 4 December 2015 - 10:51
Parliamentary Legal Committee revealed its intention to provide a general amnesty law to a vote in the coming sessions of the Parliament indicating that the political blocs reached agreements on the close of this law.
Said committee member Ibtisam Hilali in a statement to Radio tow the general amnesty that has read the first reading and the second was the introduction of the paragraphs of the exception in the law is today ready from a legal point of the vote, especially after the agreement of the political blocs.
Hilali and showed that there are five paragraphs exception included in the recent amendment of the Law Article 4, but terrorism has not carried out any amendment was subject to discussions does not allow those who have been imprisoned according to that article for his release or commutation of his sentence.
And he showed a member of the Legal Committee that the committee will seek to put the Federal Service Board Act to a vote in the coming sessions after reading the first reading and the second in what will be a priority put forward legislation to a vote in the future to the law of intelligence and who has read it once and is now in the corridors of the Committee of Finance and will be presented for the second reading after the return of parliamentary sessions in the next week.
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Walkingstick: Iraqi Kurdistan's cash crisis hits banks - and the region's promise
Stephen Kalin 6 Hours Ago Reuters
* Banks say current accounts have been inaccessible since 2014
* Falling oil prices, rising military costs squeeze KRG budget
* Erbil blames illiquidity on Baghdad's budget payment cuts
BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's cash-strapped government has seized billions of dollars in deposits at two branches of Iraq's central bank since 2014, bankers said, calling into question the region's image as a business-friendly paradise in the Middle East.
Since Baghdad cut budget payments to Kurdistan in January 2014, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has struggled to meet the public payroll and is now several months in arrears.
The fight to drive back Islamic State, which swept across the Syrian border and towards the regional capital Erbil in June of that year, has been an added drain on the budget.
Though initially envisioned as a temporary measure, the KRG finance ministry's practice of tapping funds that banks had deposited in their current accounts at local branches of Iraq's central bank continued as Kurdistan's economy, which boomed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, deteriorated.
Private banks, including institutions from Lebanon, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as state-run Iraqi lenders, may sue or threaten to divest from the oil-rich northern region if their funds are not released soon, bankers said.
Bankers and KRG officials said the regional government first tapped into banks' deposits at local central bank branches in 2014 after then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki cut Kurdistan's share of the federal budget - its main source of income - in a dispute over the region's independent oil sales to Turkey.
Baghdad, which is also facing a budget crunch due to low oil prices and the fight against Islamic State, said direct oil exports violated the constitution, though Kurdistan is now exporting more than 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil to as many as 10 countries.
"We funded the revenue gap through advances from banks including the Central Bank of Iraq's branches in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah," said Qubad Talabani, KRG's deputy prime minister. "Ultimately it's a liquidity issue caused by the fiscal crisis in Baghdad."
That move led to freezing around two dozen banks' current accounts at central bank branches in Kurdistan, bankers told Reuters. Talabani confirmed banks operating in the region had problems accessing their funds.
The KRG says it is desperate for funds to finance its Peshmerga fighters, while an influx of more than one million people displaced by violence in the rest of the country has put acute strain on the region's resources.
It also owes millions of dollars in arrears to international oil companies such as Norway's DNO and Genel Energy , which have been developing oil fields in Kurdistan.
It is unclear exactly how much money is at stake, but interviews with nearly a dozen bankers and officials suggest it is in the range of $2-6 billion.
Ali Tariq Mostaf, executive director of the Iraqi Private Banks League, estimated the deposits at over $2 billion.
Bankers said the share of seven Lebanese banks' deposits totalled nearly $100 million. Iraqi banks have much more money invested, they said, with at least 15 local lenders thought to hold up to $200 million each. Reuters was not able to contact all the banks operating in Kurdistan.
"Our accounts have been frozen for a year. We cannot have a single penny from the central bank of Erbil. If I ask for one dinar, they don't give it to us," said one of the bankers, echoing the concerns of others who all spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
Reuters could not independently verify the value of the frozen deposits. The head of Iraq's central bank did not respond to a detailed request for comment, and Talabani declined to quantify the amount of money affected.
PARADISE LOST?
The relative security of Kurdistan, largely unaffected by war, has in recent years made it a safe haven in Iraq, a major OPEC oil exporter stunted by generations of conflict, sanctions and neglect.
The region has billed itself as a progressive, pro-business market for Western investors who have eyed it as an end in itself or an entry point for the rest of the Iraq when it becomes more secure.
The capital Erbil has clubs, restaurants and a feeling of safety that allows residents to stay out after dark. But hard times have forced the KRG to moderate its ambitions.
Talabani described the lack of liquidity as a nationwide problem, but said "our situation is more acute because we're not a state. We don't have the economic levers of a country."
Plans to issue a $500 million international bond earlier this year were opposed by Baghdad as an overstep of regional authority. Falling oil prices, rising geopolitical tensions and a difficult backdrop for emerging economies stalled the scheme. 1/8nL5N10L2W4 3/4
A London court ordered the KRG last week to pay $1.98 billion to a consortium including the UAE's Dana Gas within 28 days.
"It's a troubling time right now in Kurdistan economically," said Talabani.
Kurdistan's 2014 budget deficit was almost 8 trillion Iraqi dinars ($7.23 billion) and could reach 3 trillion dinars this year, he said.
The banking dispute could also widen the region's economic and financial separation from the rest of Iraq, with the central bank in Baghdad already appearing to distance itself further from branches in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah.
A spokeswoman for the Iraqi central bank said the Kurdistan offices were independent: "Erbil and Sulaimaniyah do not belong to the central bank; they belong to the region."
Talabani disputed that. "They're technically branches of the Central Bank of Iraq and therefore it is the Central Bank of Iraq's responsibility to ensure liquidity to these branches", he said.
Iraq's central bank asked private banks last week to provide documentation of their deposits in the northern branches in preparation for a visit to Kurdistan to try to resolve the issue, but Talabani said the underlying liquidity problem showed no sign of letting up.
"We had to manage this shock in the best way that we could," he said. "We couldn't stop functioning as a state." ($1 = 1,106.0000 Iraqi dinars)
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Dnari131: Just in time for the budget with citizen reform toyz gift wrapped for vote
Religious authority demanded the demonstrators to go to the Green Zone after Thacadhm in the arena of pretending
Friday, December 4, 2015 11:52
Religious authority demanded the demonstrators to go to the Green Zone after Thacadhm in the arena of pretending
BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News / .. student religious authority, Uday Assam, on Friday, protesters, pretending to go to the arenas in all governorates of Iraq, especially Baghdad.
Assam, said in an interview with / for Baghdadi News /, said that "on the demonstrators to take to the squares to demonstrate this afternoon, and to demand the rights of the Iraqi people and the fight against financial and administrative corruption, as well as negligence in the performance of their accounting."
He threatened the government with "the demonstrators to enter the Green Zone, unless the demands of the demonstrators carried the actual reforms and direct, over the next few days," .anthy 21 and /
http://ift.tt/1QYZtu6 ... %3D4409252
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Walkingstick: Parliamentary Legal reveal about the readiness of the general amnesty law to a vote as amended
Friday 4 December 2015 - 10:51
Parliamentary Legal Committee revealed its intention to provide a general amnesty law to a vote in the coming sessions of the Parliament indicating that the political blocs reached agreements on the close of this law.
Said committee member Ibtisam Hilali in a statement to Radio tow the general amnesty that has read the first reading and the second was the introduction of the paragraphs of the exception in the law is today ready from a legal point of the vote, especially after the agreement of the political blocs.
Hilali and showed that there are five paragraphs exception included in the recent amendment of the Law Article 4, but terrorism has not carried out any amendment was subject to discussions does not allow those who have been imprisoned according to that article for his release or commutation of his sentence.
And he showed a member of the Legal Committee that the committee will seek to put the Federal Service Board Act to a vote in the coming sessions after reading the first reading and the second in what will be a priority put forward legislation to a vote in the future to the law of intelligence and who has read it once and is now in the corridors of the Committee of Finance and will be presented for the second reading after the return of parliamentary sessions in the next week.
http://ift.tt/1QYZqyB ... cf49b2d4c7
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Walkingstick: Iraqi Kurdistan's cash crisis hits banks - and the region's promise
Stephen Kalin 6 Hours Ago Reuters
* Banks say current accounts have been inaccessible since 2014
* Falling oil prices, rising military costs squeeze KRG budget
* Erbil blames illiquidity on Baghdad's budget payment cuts
BAGHDAD, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's cash-strapped government has seized billions of dollars in deposits at two branches of Iraq's central bank since 2014, bankers said, calling into question the region's image as a business-friendly paradise in the Middle East.
Since Baghdad cut budget payments to Kurdistan in January 2014, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has struggled to meet the public payroll and is now several months in arrears.
The fight to drive back Islamic State, which swept across the Syrian border and towards the regional capital Erbil in June of that year, has been an added drain on the budget.
Though initially envisioned as a temporary measure, the KRG finance ministry's practice of tapping funds that banks had deposited in their current accounts at local branches of Iraq's central bank continued as Kurdistan's economy, which boomed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, deteriorated.
Private banks, including institutions from Lebanon, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as well as state-run Iraqi lenders, may sue or threaten to divest from the oil-rich northern region if their funds are not released soon, bankers said.
Bankers and KRG officials said the regional government first tapped into banks' deposits at local central bank branches in 2014 after then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki cut Kurdistan's share of the federal budget - its main source of income - in a dispute over the region's independent oil sales to Turkey.
Baghdad, which is also facing a budget crunch due to low oil prices and the fight against Islamic State, said direct oil exports violated the constitution, though Kurdistan is now exporting more than 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil to as many as 10 countries.
"We funded the revenue gap through advances from banks including the Central Bank of Iraq's branches in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah," said Qubad Talabani, KRG's deputy prime minister. "Ultimately it's a liquidity issue caused by the fiscal crisis in Baghdad."
That move led to freezing around two dozen banks' current accounts at central bank branches in Kurdistan, bankers told Reuters. Talabani confirmed banks operating in the region had problems accessing their funds.
The KRG says it is desperate for funds to finance its Peshmerga fighters, while an influx of more than one million people displaced by violence in the rest of the country has put acute strain on the region's resources.
It also owes millions of dollars in arrears to international oil companies such as Norway's DNO and Genel Energy , which have been developing oil fields in Kurdistan.
It is unclear exactly how much money is at stake, but interviews with nearly a dozen bankers and officials suggest it is in the range of $2-6 billion.
Ali Tariq Mostaf, executive director of the Iraqi Private Banks League, estimated the deposits at over $2 billion.
Bankers said the share of seven Lebanese banks' deposits totalled nearly $100 million. Iraqi banks have much more money invested, they said, with at least 15 local lenders thought to hold up to $200 million each. Reuters was not able to contact all the banks operating in Kurdistan.
"Our accounts have been frozen for a year. We cannot have a single penny from the central bank of Erbil. If I ask for one dinar, they don't give it to us," said one of the bankers, echoing the concerns of others who all spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.
Reuters could not independently verify the value of the frozen deposits. The head of Iraq's central bank did not respond to a detailed request for comment, and Talabani declined to quantify the amount of money affected.
PARADISE LOST?
The relative security of Kurdistan, largely unaffected by war, has in recent years made it a safe haven in Iraq, a major OPEC oil exporter stunted by generations of conflict, sanctions and neglect.
The region has billed itself as a progressive, pro-business market for Western investors who have eyed it as an end in itself or an entry point for the rest of the Iraq when it becomes more secure.
The capital Erbil has clubs, restaurants and a feeling of safety that allows residents to stay out after dark. But hard times have forced the KRG to moderate its ambitions.
Talabani described the lack of liquidity as a nationwide problem, but said "our situation is more acute because we're not a state. We don't have the economic levers of a country."
Plans to issue a $500 million international bond earlier this year were opposed by Baghdad as an overstep of regional authority. Falling oil prices, rising geopolitical tensions and a difficult backdrop for emerging economies stalled the scheme. 1/8nL5N10L2W4 3/4
A London court ordered the KRG last week to pay $1.98 billion to a consortium including the UAE's Dana Gas within 28 days.
"It's a troubling time right now in Kurdistan economically," said Talabani.
Kurdistan's 2014 budget deficit was almost 8 trillion Iraqi dinars ($7.23 billion) and could reach 3 trillion dinars this year, he said.
The banking dispute could also widen the region's economic and financial separation from the rest of Iraq, with the central bank in Baghdad already appearing to distance itself further from branches in Erbil and Sulaimaniyah.
A spokeswoman for the Iraqi central bank said the Kurdistan offices were independent: "Erbil and Sulaimaniyah do not belong to the central bank; they belong to the region."
Talabani disputed that. "They're technically branches of the Central Bank of Iraq and therefore it is the Central Bank of Iraq's responsibility to ensure liquidity to these branches", he said.
Iraq's central bank asked private banks last week to provide documentation of their deposits in the northern branches in preparation for a visit to Kurdistan to try to resolve the issue, but Talabani said the underlying liquidity problem showed no sign of letting up.
"We had to manage this shock in the best way that we could," he said. "We couldn't stop functioning as a state." ($1 = 1,106.0000 Iraqi dinars)
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