{"id":117622,"date":"2026-05-17T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/117622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T09:37:08","slug":"cbi-iraqs-foreign-reserves-shed-1-8-billion-in-a-single-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/117622\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI: Iraq&#8217;s foreign reserves shed $1.8 billion in a single week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-17T09:03:36+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News-<br \/>\nBaghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s foreign<br \/>\ncurrency reserves fell sharply in the final week of April, according to fresh<br \/>\nfinancial indicators published by the Central Bank of Iraq (CBI).<\/p>\n<p>Net foreign<br \/>\nassets held by the central bank declined from 125.614 trillion dinars on April<br \/>\n23 to 123.269 trillion dinars \u2014approximately $93.3 billion\u2014 by the end of the<br \/>\nmonth, a drop of 2.345 trillion dinars in seven days, equivalent to some $1.8<br \/>\nbillion based on a Shafaq News calculation derived from central bank data.<br \/>\nOther official reserves fell in parallel, settling at 122.780 trillion dinars.<\/p>\n<p>Economic<br \/>\nanalyst Nabil al-Marsoumi attributed the continued decline directly to falling<br \/>\noil revenues.<\/p>\n<p>The figures<br \/>\ncoincide with a <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/Baghdad-targets-500k-bpd-export-goal-via-Turkiye-amid-increased-Hormuz-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">warning<\/a> issued Saturday by Oil Minister Bassem Mohammed<br \/>\nKhadhir, who said ongoing regional instability is threatening the flow of<br \/>\nenergy supplies through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-17T09:03:36+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq&#8217;s foreign currency reserves fell sharply in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,40402,37987,94],"class_list":["post-117622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-cbi-iraqs-foreign-reserves-shed-1-8-billion-in-a-single-week","tag-foreign-reserves","tag-iraq"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116589248056918166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}