ISX holds 4th electronic session

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Iraqi Stock Exchange (ISX) on Sunday held its fourth electronic trading session, where over 74 million shares were traded at a value of over 280 million Iraqi dinars. Fifty-eight transactions were made during the session, in which trading took place over the shares of four joint-stock firms out of a total five registered at the ISX. The firms are Ashur International Bank (AIB), al-Mansour Bank and the Commercial Bank of Iraq (CBIQ), al-Mansour Hotel and Ashtar Hotel. The CBIQ retained its share rates during the previous e-trading session at ID1.500, while the AIB’s shares dropped to ID1.150. Meanwhile, al-Mansour Hotel’s shares rose from ID27.600 to close at ID33.100 and Ashtar Hotel rose from ID31.200 to close at ID34.800. The ISX had witnessed the first e-trading session on April 19 over five registered companies, three banks and two hotels. The ISX holds three sessions on a weekly basis: one electronic session over five joint-stock companies on Sundays and two manual trading sessions over 86 registered companies out of a total 91 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. SS (S) 1