Baghdad – The exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar today, Sunday, decreased in a relative manner in the parallel market, with stability in the price in the official market, on the first days of the week trading in the capital, Baghdad, and the rest of the provinces.
The Iraqi dinar exchange rate today, Sunday, in the parallel market
The Iraqi dinar exchange rate against the dollar decreased today, Sunday, in the parallel market, with a disparity not exceeding 5 dinars per dollar with a stagnation in the market due to the fluctuation of prices, at the time of this report:
- The price of the dollar in Baghdad reached 1480 dinars when selling and 1450 dinars when purchasing, and the price was yesterday for sale 1460 dinars, while the purchase price was 1400.5 dinars.
- In Erbil, the sale price reached 1480 dinars, and the purchase price was 1451 dinars, after yesterday evening 1460 dinars for sale, while the purchase price was 1441.5 dinars.
- The exchange rate in Basra reached 1480.5 dinars for sale and 1451.5 dinars for purchase in transactions today, Sunday, after he registered yesterday evening for sale 1460.5 dinars. As for the purchase, it was 1441 dinars.
The exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar against the dollar in official transactions
- The sale price for transfers, documentary credits, and international electronic cards: 1310 dinars for the dollar. Selling price: 1305 dinars per dollar.
- Selling price in banks: 1310 dinars per dollar
It is noteworthy that the central bank does not buy the dollar and sell it only through the dollar sale platform, which is the main source of the dollar in Iraq, and it gets it in exchange for selling oil globally.
It is worth noting that the decision to sell in banks is fixed and binding on it from the central bank in its capacity as remarkable decisions, not a consultant, and the price is not related to the fluctuation of prices in the parallel market, and the sale is at this price for the categories specified by the central bank, which is the category of travelers exclusively.
Factors affecting the dinar exchange rate
- Currency sale auction: The volume of daily sales in the currency sale auction significantly affects the exchange rate.
- Central Bank proceduresThe measures taken by the central bank in addressing external transfers play an important role in stabilizing the exchange rate.
- The need for the dollar: Traders need the dollar to import goods from countries that suffer from economic sanctions from the American Federal Reserve (US Central), and it is prohibited to transfer the dollar through the official platform directly on the dollar exchange rate against the dinar, especially what is related to Iran for the need of traders to withdraw the dollar significantly from the parallel market to pay the bills of those imported goods, which leads to a rise in demand against supply and high prices.
- Withdrawing the dollar from entities dealing with the Iranian sideSometimes some traders and brokers are bought with the Iranian side of the dollar from the Iraqi market in large quantities to send to Iran, which needs the dollar for its international commercial dealings because of the US sanctions on it that prohibits it from obtaining the American currency.
Iran’s obtaining the Iraqi dinar by paying Iraq to the gas bills imported from Iran to operate the electric power plants in the Iraqi dinar because there is no mechanism for payment in dollars due to these sanctions; This purchase of the dollar from the parallel market leads to excessively high prices due to the imbalance of supply and demand. - The smuggling of the dinar to other countries: Some merchants smuggle the dinar to other countries to benefit from the exchange rate teams between the official and the parallel, which effectively affects the exchange rate of the dollar.
- Merchants of merchants through leaked information or rumors: Some merchants obtain leaked information from banks or from the central bank about a possible procedure related to changes in the mechanism of dealing with dollars, so these exchanges take precautionary measures to raise or reduce the price, purchase or sale only to anticipate the repercussions of the potential decision.
