USA Political Departures

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[xyz] 48 now as per foxnews??? Forty U.S. representatives and senators have announced plans to leave their seats in Congress in advance of mid-term elections in November, including 22 Republicans and 18 Democrats. 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/04/us-usa-politics-departures-factbox-idUSBREA131GZ20140204

[xyz] Iraq Stock Exchange goes beyond the barrier toward the local link the London Stock Exchange http://www.alsumaria.tv    has launched the first international exchange in Iraq in an area Arsat Indian central Baghdad, within the plan has received acclaim as economists would develop the national economy after linked to global counterpart.

 [xyz] Foreign exchange allegations 'as bad as Libor', says regulator ..Allegations of foreign exchange rate-fixing at major banks are "every bit as bad" as the Libor scandal, the boss of the UK's financial regulator has said. 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26041039

[xyz] Starting February 12, firms in the EU must begin systematic reporting of their derivatives transactions to data banks known as trade repositories. The measure marks the EU's implementation of a global agreement targeted at preventing any repeat of the financial crisis that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings.  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/companies-prepare-for-big-bang-of-european-union-swaps-rules/articleshow/29872650.cms

[xyz] wow “Iraq has Massive Potential” ... Britain's trade envoy to Iraq, Baroness Emma Nicholson, says that while Iraq is still facing huge challenges, it has "massive potential" for growth. "Iraq is indeed growing dramatically in terms of private investment and in terms of output in oil and gas and construction of infrastructure… Iraq is most definitely growing at the rate of 10% a year, and has the highest potential growth rate in the region." Along with its potential, the country faces some obvious challenges, the most critical being the level of on-going violence. Nicholson accepts this. "One of the great difficulties of course is the Sunni-Shia violence coming out of Syria, which has been spilling over into Iraq for much more than a year... I think there's nearly half a million Syrian refugees, and much of the violence is stemming from that. But nonetheless Iraq is growing."   http://connecttheworld.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/04/baroness-nicholson-iraq-has-massive-potential/