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    Iraq's dollar bond is contained by rising oil revenue through exports

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    Iraq's dollar bond is contained by rising oil revenue through exports Empty Iraq's dollar bond is contained by rising oil revenue through exports

    Post by Rocky Wed 13 Aug 2014, 9:35 am

    Iraq's dollar bond is contained by rising oil revenue through exports 



    The slide in Iraq's dollar bond since June, when Islamist militants overran much of the country's north, is being contained by rising oil revenue as exports surge in the south. 
    The yield on Iraq's January 2028 dollar security has jumped 109 basis points to 7.37 percent since tumbling to an 16-month low on June 9, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The rate remains below this year's high of 7.74 percent in February, and compares with a 30 basis-point increase in the JPMorgan Chase & Co. Emerging Markets Global Sovereign Bond Yield Index. 
    While insurgents from the Islamic State, an Al-Qaeda offshoot, have seized oil fields and are battling for control of two dams as they threaten Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government, most of the nation's production is flowing without interruption in the south. Crude sales rose 5 percent last month to 2.44 million barrels a day. 
    Geoffrey Batt, managing director of the $ 110 million Euphrates Iraq Fund, said, "The heart of Iraq's oil industry - and the economic engine of the country - is located in the south, far removed from the Islamic State's latest military adventure." 
    "In July, Iraq earned $ 7.8 billion from southern oil exports, meaning one month's exports could buy the entire bond issue roughly three times over," he added. 
    The advance of Islamic State fighters, who seized the northern city of Mosul in June, poses the biggest threat to Iraq's government since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled former leader Saddam Hussein. The insurgents seized two oil fields earlier this month with a combined output of 30,000 barrels a day, state run Northern Oil Co. said Sunday. The jihadist group is now targeting dams that could enable its fighters to flood areas near Baghdad and Mosul. 
    "Bond prices in Iraq have reacted to deteriorating security conditions and complex political considerations," Mohieddine Kronfol, chief investment officer for global sukuk and Middle East and North Africa fixed-income at Franklin Templeton Investments ME, said in an email from Dubai. "The markets have not yet priced in impaired exports of oil or an unraveling of the sovereign which, in our view, is a reasonable current assessment." 
    Iraq exports almost all its oil, excluding the crude produced in the semiautonomous Kurdish region, by tanker through the Arab Gulf, far from where the insurgents have captured territory for their self-declared caliphate. 
    Julian Metherell, its chief financial officer, said that Genel Energy PLC, the largest oil producer in the Kurdish enclave, is confident the northern region will maintain unimpeded exports of its own, and the company plans to ship 20,000 barrels a day by pipeline in the second half of the year. 
    Iraq pumped 3 million barrels a day of crude in July, second to Saudi Arabia among the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. It holds the world's fifth-largest oil reserves, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The International Monetary Fund forecasts the Iraqi economy will expand 5.9 percent this year, faster than any other Middle Eastern country. 
    "To some extent, investors think that politically you still have a country that is Westward-leaning and will continue orthodox policies," Stuart Culverhouse, chief economist at investment bank Exotix, said by phone from London. "We are not seeing a repudiation of the bonds because of the difficult situation." 

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