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ISX trades over 3.5b shares this week.

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX ISX InstallShield Express (Setup software)
ISX Internet Service Exchange (Abovenet)
ISX Insoluble Starch Xanthate
ISX Information Superiority Experiments
ISX Infrastructure
ISX Incisive Software Extensions
) traded this week over more than 3.5 billion shares worth more 6 billion Iraqi dinars Noun 1. Iraqi dinar - the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils
dinar

fils - a fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait; equal to one thousandth of a dinar

Iraqi monetary unit - monetary unit in Iraq
 ($5 million) through 1277 transactions with non-Iraqi investors obtaining 17% of the total trading volume Trading volume

The number of shares transacted every day. As there is a seller for every buyer, one can think of the trading volume as half of the number of shares transacted. That is, if A sells 100 shares to B, the volume is 100 shares.
 through 180 transactions over 535 million shares worth 1.39 billion Iraqi dinars.

The week's volume of trading is close to last week's when traded shares hit 2.3 billion worth 6.2 billion Iraqi dinars.

The industrial firms came in the lead this week as their shares topped the list of highest rates.

The ISX witnessed the first e-trading session on April 19 over five registered companies, three banks and two hotels. The banks were the Ashur International Bank (AIB AIB n abbr (BRIT) (= Accident Investigation Bureau) → oficina de investigación de accidentes

AIB n abbr (Brit) (= Accident Investigation Bureau) →
), Al-Mansour Bank and the Iraqi Credit Bank while the hotels were the Ashtar Hotel and Al-Mansour Hotel.

On June 7, the Iraqi Middle East Investment Bank and the Warka Bank joined the electronic trading This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.
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 sessions.

The ISX now holds three electronic sessions on a weekly basis: Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

AmR (P)

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