Economics
- The average electrical energy production (September 17-23) was 110,040 MWhrs per day, an increase of 12.2 percent.
- Cell phone subscribers now total 779,725.
- At the New Iraqi Dinar (NID) auction on September 27, the settlement price was 1,465 dinars per dollar. This is the first NID exchange rate fluctuation (0.3%) since June 17.
- National Bank of Kuwait, the Arab lender with the highest credit rating, agreed to buy the Credit Bank of Iraq in what may be the first foreign purchase of an Iraqi lender in at least four decades.
- National Bank will hold 75 percent of the Iraqi bank and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation will hold 10 percent.