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 one billion dollars.
Shafaq News 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 22 million 302 thousand and 804 dollars, at a daily rate of 204 million and 460 million and 560 dollars, higher than what it recorded last week, which amounted to 674 million 21 thousand. And $96.
The highest dollar sales were on Thursday, when sales amounted to 210,430,551 dollars, while the lowest sales were on Monday, when sales amounted to 199,905,896 dollars.
Our correspondent indicated that foreign remittance sales during the past week amounted to 902 million, 121,804 dollars, an increase of 87% compared to cash sales, which amounted to 120 million, 181 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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