09 February 2012
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The sales of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), in its auctionsfor selling and buying foreign currencies had raised in the closing of its weekly auctionson Thursday with selling US$68 millions, compared with 15 million dollars in its previoussession, and on an exchange rate of 1,166 Iraqi dinars per dollar, according to the CBI's daily bulletin. The bulletin, copy of which was received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency, pointed out that the total size of the dollar sales has reached 68 millions and 33,000 dollars, covered by the CBIon an exchange rate of 1,166 dinars per dollar, adding that today's sales are considered much higher than the previous session that recorded 15 millions and 363,000 US dollars only.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The sales of the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI), in its auctionsfor selling and buying foreign currencies had raised in the closing of its weekly auctionson Thursday with selling US$68 millions, compared with 15 million dollars in its previoussession, and on an exchange rate of 1,166 Iraqi dinars per dollar, according to the CBI's daily bulletin. The bulletin, copy of which was received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency, pointed out that the total size of the dollar sales has reached 68 millions and 33,000 dollars, covered by the CBIon an exchange rate of 1,166 dinars per dollar, adding that today's sales are considered much higher than the previous session that recorded 15 millions and 363,000 US dollars only.
The CBI's dollar sales had decreased during the past 2 sessions of last week to reach 4 millions and 321,000 dollars and 3 millions and 250,000 dollars, successively, whilst the previous session's sales had reached 199 million dollars, which was a figure close to the Bank's average sales since the beginning of the current year, following the impact of the Syrian events on Iraq and the transfer of the merchants to re-export for Syria, along with the impact of the recent economic sanctions against Iran.
© Aswat Aliraq 2012
