Shafaq News/ The Central Bank of Iraq’s total sales of hard currency to the US dollar during the past week amounted to more than 800 million dollars.
Shafaq News Agency correspondent stated that the Central Bank sold during the past week and for the four days in which the auction was opened, 883 million and 860 thousand and 97 dollars, at a daily rate of 220 million and 965 million and 24 dollars, lower than what it recorded last week, which amounted to one billion and 48 million 170 thousand and 594 dollars.
The highest dollar sales were on Wednesday, when sales amounted to 222 million, 559 thousand and 204 dollars, while the lowest sales were on Thursday, when sales amounted to 219 million, 157 thousand and 334 dollars.
Our correspondent indicated that sales of foreign remittances during the past week amounted to 801 million 30 thousand and 97 dollars, an increase of 90% compared to cash sales that amounted to 82 million 830 thousand 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.
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