AP: Fund-Raisers Traded With Iran, Iraq
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The chairman of President Bush's Homeland Security Advisory Committee and Democratic challenger John Kerry's fund-raising chief are among 27 top campaign cash-raisers who are current or former managers of companies punished for trading with Iran or Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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Merrill Lynch said it is getting a $6.6 billion cash infusion from three foreign funds: The Korean Investment Corp., Kuwait Investment Authority and Mizuho Corporate Bank.
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In recent years, exchange-traded funds focused on individual countries or regions have come to span the globe.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 23 -- In the months after President Bush's 2002 speech branding Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil," North Korean officials channeled at least $2.7 million through a bank account normally used to process United Nations development projects because of fears that the...
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Lawmakers in Washington want to make it easier for mutual funds and pension plans to sell stocks in companies doing business in Sudan and Iran, targeting institutions like Fidelity Investments and the state boards that manage public retirement money.
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Iran has increased arms shipments to both Iraq's Shiite extremists and Afghanistan's Taliban in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to pressure American and other Western troops operating in its two strategic neighbors, according to senior U.S. and European officials.
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Stock markets rose across Europe and Asia, oil prices edged up and the US dollar was modestly higher Wednesday as US President Bush crept closer to re-election in a tight race for the White House.
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Iraq's neighbors want tens of billions of dollars for environmental damage done in the 1990-1 Gulf conflict, but are set to get only paltry funds from the United Nations, diplomats and U.N. sources said on Friday.
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Merrill Lynch & Co  is in talks  with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds that  could lead to the sale of another big stake in the U.S. bank,  British newspaper The Observer reported, citing sources in  London and New York.
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The Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein issued millions of dollars in lucrative oil export vouchers to leading French, Russian and other foreign politicians as part of a concerted effort to win their assistance in lifting UN sanctions against Iraq, according to a CIA report made public here.
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an important supplier to the US market -- and Saudi Arabia, recent hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, violence in Iraq, and the financial woes of Russian energy giant Yukos.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq has agreed to award $1.1 billion in contracts to Iranian and Chinese companies to build a pair of enormous power plants, the Iraqi electricity minister said yesterday. Word of the project prompted serious concerns among American military officials, who fear that Iranian commercial investments can mask military activities at a time of heightened tension with Iran.
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Donor nations wrapped up a two-day meeting Thursday that Iraqi leaders hope will free up much-needed reconstruction funds that were pledged a
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of the most powerful architects of the world economy and controlled by the planet&#39;s wealthiest nations, has marked its return to US-occupied Iraq with a new loan of US$436 million.
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From the Philippines to Iraq, money talks and American commandos want to keep on handing out the dollars.
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Oil climbed above $61 to its highest this year on Friday after top fuel consumer the United States reported an unexpected drop in gasoline stocks and Iran said it would show 'no weakness' over its nuclear program.
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BAGHDAD -- Washington is sending a veteran Middle East hand. Tehran's envoy is a British-educated diplomat considered to be one of Iran's leading Western analysts.