Central Bank: Cancel Auction sell currencies to keep the exchange rate of the dinar against the dollar
Central Bank: Cancel Auction sell currencies to keep the exchange rate of the dinar against the dollar
24/02/2015 12:30 GMT
Follow-up – and babysit – The Central Bank of Iraq, on Tuesday, the abolition of the daily auction for the sale of foreign currencies.
The central bank said media director Fadel Hussein, in a press statement, “The need to cover banking offices, community and government banks of currencies will be by remittances, with only stop the daily bank, which includes the sale of direct cash auction, including the dollar.”
He added that “this decision is not contrary to what was stated by the budget bill for 2015 identifying the auction amounts to 75 million dollars.”
He pointed out that “the move is part of the Bank’s policy to maintain the stability of the Iraqi dinar exchange rate against the dollar has been preceded by a step to reduce the volume of sales in the auction.”
The Central Bank of Iraq sells in previous years, sums up to billions of dollars a month, but decreased significantly in the past few weeks where he sold more than $ 2.8 billion in the month of January last.
It is said that the bank was selling the dollar on the price of 1166 Iraqi dinars to the dollar, which Ibiaa in markets and banking offices at about 1220 dinars, a difference of 54 dinars
It was expected by the bank’s decision to drop the sales of the dollar in the auction for this year, according to the law of the state budget, which began in Parliament on 29 January last, and ratified by the Presidency of the Republic in 10 of this February. Q, Q
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