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 48 million and 170 thousand and 594 dollars, at a daily rate of 209 million and 634 million, 108 dollars lower than what it recorded last week, which amounted to one billion and 117 million. 709 thousand and 150 dollars.
The highest dollar sales were on Sunday, when sales amounted to 219 million, 957 thousand and 731 dollars, while the lowest sales were on Monday, when sales amounted to 202 million, 300 thousand and 305 dollars.
Our correspondent indicated that sales of foreign remittances during the past week amounted to 957 million 890 thousand and 549 dollars, an increase of 91% compared to cash sales that amounted to 90 million 280 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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