Gold Prices Steady as US Dollar Rates Experience Slight Decline Across Iraqi Markets

Precious metals and currency exchange markets in Iraq recorded new figures across primary trading hubs. Global gold prices reached $4,023 per ounce, with local retail gold rates ranging between 368,000 IQD for 9-karat and 900,000 IQD for 22-karat per mithqal

(with 21-karat trading at 860,000 IQD). Concurrently, the US dollar registered a modest decline against the Iraqi dinar, trading at 152,500 IQD per $100 in Baghdad's Al-Kifah Exchange and 152,250 IQD in Al-Harithiya. Rates settled at 151,000 IQD in Basra

and 152,000 IQD in the Erbil currency exchange.