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Rates cut to 9% to spur growth by Iraq banks



Falling oil revenues, presumably from the falling price of oil, has spurred the central bank of Iraq to decrease it’s base interest rate from 11% to 9%.

This decrease is able to happen, in part, due to the inflation rate decreasing in Iraq. As stated by Mudher Mohammed Salih, the Iraq interest rates could call again – Salih is expecting rates to be around 5% in January 2010.

Source: lse.co.uk

Editors comment: With the incredibly stable Dinar value, an inflation rate that is going in a positive direction, and now interest rates falling to extremely attractive levels – what do you think this will do to the situation in Iraq? It’s looking good, we think!

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