Having finished digesting its acquisition of Harris-Teeter, grocery store giant Kroger (NYSE:KR) is rumored to have an appetite for yet another acquisition.
(AP/Iranian Presidency Office) The Obama administration on Wednesday paid $490 million in cash assets to Iran and will have released a total of $11.9 billion to the Islamic Republic by the time nuclear talks are scheduled to end in June, according to figures provided by the State Department.
Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture, and small-scale private trading and service ventures. In 2014, GDP was $404.1 billion ($1.334 trillion at PPP), or $17,100 at PPP per capita.