Bonafide" - ZIM Sovereign Rate Overview - Saturday - May 6, 2017

Africa is ancient. 
 
The oldest known continent on the earth's surface. As such, many of its sub-terrainian rock formations are incredibly dense and loaded with valuable minerals.

Now the term "Rare Earth Element" (REE) is commonly used to describe 15 chemically similar, lanthanide elements which appear together towards the bottom of the Periodic Table. 

2 other elements, yttrium and scandium, which have similar chemical properties, are often also referred to as rare earths.

REEs can be divided into "light" rare earths and "heavy" rare earths, both are present to varying degrees in all rare earth deposits.

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Okie Dinar says():Iraq, Iran sign banking cooperation memo
 
Iranian Central Bank announced that talks were held with the Iraqi Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) to coordinate financial cooperation.
 
In a statement, the two-day talks concentrated on completing the procedures to hold the joint banking committee during the coming two weeks.
 
The meetings were to follow up the cooperation agreement between Iranian and Iraqi central banks signed last year, the statement added.
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Okie Dinar says():Iraqi forces gain foothold in northwest Mosul after surprise new push
 
Iraqi forces pushed further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge Islamic State, commanders said on Friday.
 
Islamic State tried to block the troops' northerly advance into their de facto Iraqi capital with suicide car bombs and sniper fire, Brigadier General Walid Khalifa, deputy commander of the 9th brigade, told Reuters in Hulayla, west of Musherfa.
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tman23 says():ERBIL— Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi stated on Friday that no US combat troops will remain in Iraq after the conclusion of the battle against the Islamic State (IS), the AP reported.
 
Abdi's statement came in response to an earlier report by the AP which indicated for their mutual interests, both Iraq and the US are involved in talks over prolonging the US military presence in Iraq after the IS.
 
Iraqi PM stated the US troops will continue their role as "advisors" to assist the Iraqi forces "maintain full readiness for any future security challenges."
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forestnr4 says():THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2017  Iraq, WB start financial reform  7:59 PM ADMIN

Baghdad/ Iraq TradeLink: Iraqi Acting Finance Minister Abdul Razzak al-Issa stated that the  financial reform in the country, in cooperation with the World Bank (WB) has been started.
 
This move complements the agreement in Washington last Spring.
 
He pointed that this project will concentrate on financial administration and the implementation of the budget at the finance ministry and other departments.
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