The reserve of Iraqi Central Bank’s hard cash is experiencing high end success recently and it has been termed as a historic scenario. This has been said by a Central Bank official. As the official revealed, “The volume of hard cash reserves of the Iraqi Central Bank have reached $74 billion. This the highest figure of reserves ever in Iraq’s history,”
For meeting up Iraq’s financial obligations, reserves of the bank is more than sufficient in terms of import and sustaining stability of the domestic currency, the dinar.
The dinar price has been dropped recently, though the bank said that the bank has succeeded in shoring up the currency via daily auctions in which it sells an average of $150 million to other banks and the public at official prices.
The daily auctions, analysts say, are a sign of a boom in hard cash earnings emanating from surges in oil output and oil export royalties. The bank revealed that it is investing its reserves in international banks. The bank is using other financial outlets as part of a strategy to diversify income and profits.
Updated 14 May 2013 | Soruce: Azzaman | By S.Seal