The most important economic events of 2018

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[rtl]See the most important economic events in 2018[/rtl]

[rtl]January[/rtl]

[rtl]A record drop in Germany's unemployment rate hit a record low, reflecting the strength of the labor market, which fuels consumption-led growth.[/rtl]

[rtl]Parliamentary finance hosts a high-level government delegation to discuss the budget[/rtl]

[rtl]Gold prices fall after dollar rally[/rtl]

[rtl]The International Monetary Fund (IMF) reveals that economic growth in the region is insufficient to create opportunities for young people[/rtl]

[rtl]Turkish construction companies generate revenues of $ 24.827 billion in Iraq[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraq sells Basra crude oil at a high premium on the Dubai bourse[/rtl]

[rtl]February[/rtl]

[rtl]Parliamentary Finance announced that 135 trillion dinars Iraq's internal and external debt until last December[/rtl]

[rtl]The high exchange rates of the Iraqi dinar against the exchange rates of the US dollar[/rtl]

[rtl]Nikkei extends gains to 3-week high[/rtl]

[rtl]British Prime Minister Receives Northern Ireland One billion pounds without parliament's approval[/rtl]

[rtl]Gold prices rise in line with the dollar's decline[/rtl]

[rtl]Bahr al-Uloum confirms that non-oil revenues in the budget increased by 40% over previous years[/rtl]

[rtl]America unveils new sanctions against Russia in 30 days[/rtl]

[rtl]Shell expects global gas shortage in 2020 in Basra[/rtl]

[rtl]March[/rtl]

[rtl]Qatar Petroleum owns 49% of its companies[/rtl]

[rtl]Vietnam's foreign exchange reserves exceed 60 billion[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraqi border ports announced the seizure of a truck loaded with materials at the outlet of Trebil[/rtl]

[rtl]An expert ruled out a long-term agreement to freeze oil production between producing countries[/rtl]

[rtl]Parliamentary energy confirms that oil conferences are ink on paper and have no presence on the ground[/rtl]

[rtl]Dhi Qar Council calls for raising the ceiling of oil production in the province to 230 thousand barrels per day[/rtl]

[rtl]South Korea's foreign minister reveals the possibility of implementing a project to build a pipeline to pump gas from Russia to the two Koreas.[/rtl]

[rtl]Turkey's trade deficit rose 54% year-on-year to $ 5.76 billion.[/rtl]

[rtl]April[/rtl]

[rtl]Economic reports: contracting with two Chinese companies to build the oil refinery[/rtl]

[rtl]European warnings of US trade sanctions on the single region[/rtl]

[rtl]Central sales of foreign currency fell to $ 137 million[/rtl]

[rtl]Rafidain Bank holds its first conference on the settlement of salaries and advances[/rtl]

[rtl]The central sales decline of hard currency is $ 154 million[/rtl]

[rtl]Europe is pressing Washington to avoid the threat of sanctions against Russia[/rtl]

[rtl]The Iraqi government denies denouncing the donor conference from paying pledges and confirms the slow implementation[/rtl]

[rtl]May[/rtl]

[rtl]Trump plans to ban Mercedes cars in America[/rtl]

[rtl]Iran's exports of fish exceed half a billion dollars[/rtl]

[rtl]Re-opening the Wadi Hajar oil derivatives warehouse in Mosul[/rtl]

[rtl]Dhi Qar: 86 fish farming projects threatened to stop working[/rtl]

[rtl]Large-scale strike in Jordan due to income tax[/rtl]

[rtl]Finance reveals the allocation of 200 billion dinars as soft loans to farmers and farmers[/rtl]

[rtl]Egypt is winning billions of dollars against one of the world's largest companies[/rtl]

[rtl]June[/rtl]

[rtl]Turkey says it will not cut off trade ties with Iran[/rtl]

[rtl]Saudi Arabia bows to Trump and lifts oil production[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil prices hit their highest level this month[/rtl]

[rtl]Industry shows that tariffs have protected 79 domestic producers[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraqi trade establishment achieves sales of 245 million dinars[/rtl]

[rtl]Nikkei down with damaged airlines and freight[/rtl]

[rtl]July[/rtl]

[rtl]Finance launches 97 billion dinars from the operating budget of the province of Basra[/rtl]

[rtl]Dhi Qar Council reveals the high rate of poverty in the province to 70 percent[/rtl]

[rtl]Iran allocates $ 18 billion to cover imports of basic commodities[/rtl]

[rtl]Governor of Basra announces the launch of the provincial budget of the petrodollar[/rtl]

[rtl]After Kuwait .. Kuwait is considering stopping the passage of oil tankers across the Bab al-Mandab Strait[/rtl]

[rtl]Lebanon demands full debt to Iraq with benefits[/rtl]

[rtl]Facebook is losing billions of dollars in its market shares[/rtl]

[rtl]Saudi Arabia stops shipments of crude through the Strait of Bab al-Mandab[/rtl]

[rtl]Iran becomes the second largest oil supplier to India after Iraq[/rtl]

[rtl]Nikkei rises to its highest level in a month[/rtl]

[rtl]Jordan announces the entry of 120 trucks to the exchange with Iraq daily[/rtl]

[rtl]Wasit electricity charges a fine of one million dinars to lighting users during the day[/rtl]

[rtl]August[/rtl]

[rtl]Iran is the second largest producer of gasoline catalysts[/rtl]

[rtl]Amazon is approaching the trillion after a record rise in its value[/rtl]

[rtl]The Nikkei average fell at the start of trading in the Japanese capital Tokyo[/rtl]

[rtl]Argentina asks the IMF to quickly release funds from a conditional loan[/rtl]

[rtl]China announces trade volume with Iran, which touched 20 billion dollars[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil prices rise to $ 76 a barrel[/rtl]

[rtl]The Turkish lira falls 3% after resuming trading in local markets[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil falls as a result of trade disputes between America and China[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil prices rise to $ 75 a barrel[/rtl]

[rtl]Kuwait plans to study the development of joint oil fields with Iraq[/rtl]

[rtl]Iran confirms its continued export of gas and electricity to Iraq[/rtl]

[rtl]The Iraqi Trade Union announces that US sanctions will not affect trade relations with Iran[/rtl]

[rtl]Petrofac is awarded a $ 370 million contract to develop the Majnoon field[/rtl]

[rtl]Wasit Council announces agreement with officials of Iran's Ilam province on trade exchange[/rtl]

[rtl]Trump takes action against steel and aluminum exports[/rtl]

[rtl]The Turkish lira is falling apart as the diplomatic crisis between Washington and Ankara continues[/rtl]

[rtl]China charges $ 16 billion in US goods[/rtl]

[rtl]September[/rtl]

[rtl]Economists reveal the surplus budget of 2018 covered almost the size of the planned fiscal deficit[/rtl]

[rtl]Despite pressure from Trump .. Oil prices rise to the highest level since 2014[/rtl]

[rtl]Financial Maysan confirms that the federal government city of the province of 88 billion dinars[/rtl]

[rtl]A member of the Basra Council reveals the arrival of half of the province's share of imports of border crossings[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraq is the third Arab in the foreign reserves and the fourth ownership of US Treasury bonds[/rtl]

[rtl]Three European countries are considering circumventing US sanctions and allowing Iran to continue exporting oil[/rtl]

[rtl]Trump plans to charge $ 200 billion in additional Chinese goods[/rtl]

[rtl]Syrian-Jordanian talks to open a major border crossing between the two countries[/rtl]

[rtl]The border crossings have generated revenues of 309 billion dinars during the past three months[/rtl]

[rtl]The Federal Court is considering material appeals in the law of the Iraqi National Oil Company[/rtl]

[rtl]Trade abolishes 163 food and flour agencies in one month[/rtl]

[rtl]Russian and Chinese companies are looking at projects with more than $ 100 billion[/rtl]

[rtl]The Cabinet approves the release of funds earmarked for Basra[/rtl]

[rtl]TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will ease European nuclear talks until November to resolve the fate of the nuclear deal[/rtl]

[rtl]Qatar and Turkey sign an economic partnership agreement[/rtl]

[rtl]October[/rtl]

[rtl]Turkey conducts first oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraq prevents imports of maize crop[/rtl]

[rtl]Cabinet refers the budget of 2019 to Parliament[/rtl]

[rtl]Basra receives 229 billion dinars from the dues owed by the central government[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil prices plummet after warning of impending sell-off[/rtl]

[rtl]Sumo sells two new shipments of Basrah crude to the Dubai bourse[/rtl]

[rtl]Parliamentary warnings from the new agricultural plan that will raise the unemployment rate and the contraction of domestic product[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraq contracts with Siemens and General Electric to develop electricity[/rtl]

[rtl]Iran announces a "quantum leap" in the export of goods to Iraq[/rtl]

[rtl]The New York Times confirms that US rock oil is destroying Riyadh's hopes of pressure on Washington[/rtl]

[rtl]Extractive oil companies disassociated from the Ministry of Oil[/rtl]

[rtl]The Saudi stock index fell 7 percent for the first time since 2014[/rtl]

[rtl]Experts consider placing the acting central bank governor's name on the new currency as a dangerous precedent[/rtl]

[rtl]President of the European Commission calls for dealing with the euro instead of the dollar in energy exports[/rtl]

[rtl]November[/rtl]

[rtl]Detecting the seizure of 14,000 dunums of land for the Ministry of Finance[/rtl]

[rtl]Anbar Council: influential political parties obstructing the process of reopening the three border crossings west of the province[/rtl]

[rtl]Abdul-Mahdi calls on France to participate in the reconstruction of Iraq and the development of cooperation[/rtl]

[rtl]Parliamentary Finance announces the addition of trillions of dinars for development projects of regions in the budget[/rtl]

[rtl]Abdul-Mahdi informs parliament to keep the budget and modify it in coordination with the government[/rtl]

[rtl]December[/rtl]

[rtl]US companies working in Basra oil prevent labor inspectors from entering[/rtl]

[rtl]Iraq and Jordan agree to establish a joint industrial zone and deduct 75% of transport drawings[/rtl]

[rtl]The report predicts a slowdown in the global economy in 2019 and considers it a difficult year ahead[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil surges nearly 3 percent despite supply worries[/rtl]

[rtl]Gold hits the highest level in more than 6 months[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil prices are heavily hurt by fears of slowing market growth[/rtl]

[rtl]Sharp decline of the dollar affected by the continued closure of the US government[/rtl]

[rtl]Basra signed a contract with a Chinese company specialized in water desalination[/rtl]

[rtl]Parliamentary finance ruled out passing the budget at the end of this year[/rtl]

[rtl]Extension of Iraq's exemption from US sanctions on Iran[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil is rising from its lows as concerns continue to overshadow supply[/rtl]

[rtl]Libyan oil refuses to resume production from the field of spark[/rtl]

[rtl]Cabinet approves tender for drilling of new wells in Basra[/rtl]

[rtl]Oil falls because of oversupply and rising dollar[/rtl]

[rtl]Prepared by: Baqer al-Hassani[/rtl]