BAGHDAD: The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) currency auction on April 18 registered $121,787,000 in sales, a -11.08% volume decline from the US $136,965,000 sold by Iraqi Dinar, credit and transfer at the previous auction held on April 17.
The latest auction was attended by 45 banks and 9 remittance companies. The same institutions attended the auction held on April 18 compared to the previous auction.
Data for the April 18 auction was made public by CBI Announcement Number 3680.
Dollar sales in the in the period January 1, 2018 to April 18, 2018 saw an increase of -1% compared to the sales of US $10.63 billion in the same period in 2017. The total amount of US currency sold by CBI in the calendar year 2017 was US $15.7 billion.
An analysis of the monthly dollar sales by CBI since January 2016 reveals highly fluctuating volumes.
