2023-11-18T10:06:07+00:00
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/ The Central Bank of Iraq’s total sales of hard currency to the US dollar during the past week amounted to more than one billion dollars.
Agency correspondent stated that the Central Bank sold during the past week and for the five days in which the auction was opened, one billion and 143 million and 53 thousand and 503 dollars, at a daily rate of 228 million and 610 million and 700 dollars, higher than what it recorded last week, which amounted to one billion and 146. One million 308 thousand and 909 dollars.
The highest dollar sales were on Sunday, when sales amounted to 235 million, 236 thousand and 339 dollars, while the lowest sales were on Thursday, when sales amounted to 221 million, 425 thousand and 343 dollars.
Our correspondent indicated that sales of foreign remittances during the past week amounted to 1 billion 70 million 513 thousand and 693 dollars, an increase of 90% compared to cash sales that amounted to 103 million 858 thousand and 600 dollars.
Our correspondent explained that the sales went in the form of cash and transfers abroad to finance foreign trade, while the selling price of documentary credits and international settlements for electronic cards reached 1,305 dinars per dollar, while the selling price of transfers abroad and the cash selling price reached 1,310 dinars per dollar.