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 775 million 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, 775 million 219 thousand and 316 dollars, at a daily rate of 193 million 804 thousand and 840 dollars, lower than what it recorded last week, which amounted to 194 million 293 thousand and 616. $.
The highest dollar sales were on Wednesday, when sales amounted to 196 million, 613 thousand and 962 dollars, while the lowest sales were on Monday, when sales amounted to 192 million, 602 thousand and 190 dollars.
Our correspondent indicated that sales of foreign remittances during the past week amounted to 720 million 590 thousand and 841 dollars, an increase of 95% compared to cash sales that amounted to 37 million 940 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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