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Voices of Iraq: Iraq-Currency
Posted by: saleem on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 03:05 PM
Iraq-Currency
Higher demand for dollar as exchange rate fixed till Thursday in auction
By Dergham Mohamed Ali
Baghdad, Apr 10, (VOI) – Demand for the dollar was down in the Iraqi Central Bank’s daily auction on Tuesday, reaching $ 59.505 million compared with $49.825 million on Sunday, as the Central Bank fixed the exchange rate at 1,272 dinars per dollar until Thursday.
In its daily statement, the bank said it had covered all bids, which included $9.485 million in cash and $50.020 million in foreign transfers, at an exchange rate of 1,272 dinars per dollar, unchanged from last week.
A source at the Iraqi Central bank told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) "the exchange rate is fixed at 1,272 dinars per dollar until Thursday."
None of the 14 banks that participated in Tuesday's auction offered to sell dollars.
The auction did not convene on Monday as the Iraqi government imposed a curfew on Baghdad on the fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall.
Abdul-Razzaq al-Abaiji, an economist, who praised the bank's decision to fix the exchange rate at 1272 dinars per dollar told VOI, "the fixed exchange rate has encouraged traders to make more bids in today's session."
The Iraqi Central Bank runs a daily auction from Sunday to Thursday.
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