The Central Bank of Iraq’s sales from the hard currency auction of the US dollar during the month of January amounted to more than 4 billion dollars.
An agency correspondent reported, “During January, the Central Bank sold 4 billion, 95 million, 583 thousand, and 404 dollars during the days it opened its auction for buying and selling the US dollar, at a daily rate of 215 million, 557 thousand, and 21 dollars.”
Our correspondent added, “Sales of foreign remittances during the past month amounted to 3 billion, 585 million, 641 thousand, and 446 dollars, an increase of 91% compared to cash sales, which amounted to 331 million, 888 thousand dollars.”
Our correspondent indicated that these sales were distributed between transfers abroad to finance foreign trade, and cash sales to banks, while the selling price of documentary credits and international settlements for electronic cards reached 1305 dinars per dollar, while the selling price of transfers abroad and the cash selling price reached 1310 dinars per dollar.