Trading In a War Zone
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The man who will lead Iraq's revamped stock exchange into its automated era is the market's 41-year-old CEO Taha Ahmed Abdul Salam. He says he is cautiously optimistic that the electronic trading system will serve as a foundation for the exchange and ultimately thrust it forward as Iraq's fledgling democracy takes flight. "We have big plans, but we have to take one step at a time," says Salam. "The first step is to create an electronic trading system, and much of the rest of our future depends
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