Tuesday morning in the marketplaces of Baghdad and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, the US dollar exchange rates dropped.
The dollar values dropped when Al-Kifah and Al-Harithiya stock exchanges opened to record 149,000 Iraqi dinars for every 100 dollars, stated Shafaq News Agency correspondent; yesterday, Monday, it recorded 149,350 dinars for every 100 dollars.
Our correspondent said that whilst the purchasing price for every 100 dollars reached 148,000 dinars, the selling prices in the exchange stores in the local marketplaces in Baghdad dropped as the selling price hit 150,000 dinars.
The dollar also fell in Erbil, where the buying price came at 149,000 dinars against 100 dollars and the selling price came at 149,050 dinars against the dollar.