Decline in the General Index of the Stock Exchange and the High Trading Volume

 During the first quarter of this year, Baghdad – Mostafa Hashemi general index of share prices in the Iraqi market for securities for the first quarter of 2014 declined by -5.12 percent to close at the end of the first quarter of the current year at 107.36 compared to 113.15 points, the end of the fourth quarter of last year., in time increased the trading volume during the first quarter of 2014 to nearly 245.2 billion dinars, compared to nearly 169.9 billion dinars during the fourth quarter of 2013 and an increase of 44.3 percent.  

And Prime Securities Commission, Dr. Abdul Razzaq al-Saadi The trading volume for the first quarter fell by 87.9 percent from what it was in the first quarter of the previous year.Saadi said in a statement the “morning: occupied the banking sector during the first quarter of 2014, ranked first in terms of volume as the volume of trading approximately 207.4 billion dinars and by 84.6 percent of the total, and came in second place, the industrial sector, where a volume of nearly 11.7 billion dinars, and 4.8 percent of the total, and came in third hotel sector as the volume Trading approximately 11.5 billion dinars and by 4.7 percent of the total.

Continued averaged session trading volume during the first quarter of 2014, approximately 4.2 billion dinars, compared to nearly 3.2 billion dinars during the fourth quarter of 2013, where The number of trading sessions during this Chapter 58 trading session, compared to 53 trading session for the fourth quarter of 2013. pointed to a rise in the number of shares traded during the first quarter of 2014 to nearly 176.3 billion shares compared with nearly 112.8 billion shares during the quarter the fourth of the year 2013 and by an increase of 56.3 percent. It is worth mentioning that the number of shares for the first quarter fell by 45.1 percent, from what it was in the first quarter from a year earlier.

Said Saadi occupied the banking sector during the first quarter of the year 2014 ranked first where the number of shares traded since the number of shares approximately 165.3 billion shares by 93.8 percent of the total, while came in second place, the industrial sector, where the number of shares nearly 6.6 billion shares and 3.7 percent of the total, and came in third place the service sector where the Number of shares traded nearly 3 billion shares and 1.7 percent of the total, have averaged the meeting for the number of shares traded during the first quarter of this year, 2.1 billion shares compared to 3 billion shares for the fourth quarter of 2013. , and on the number of contracts executed during the first quarter of 2014 confirmed Saadi It amounted to about 32 300 contract compared to nearly 28 200 contract for the fourth quarter of 2013, an increase of 14.6 percent.  

And pointed out that the number of contracts for the first quarter fell by 21.5 percent from what it was in the first quarter of the previous year has occupied the banking sector ranked first in terms of number of contracts reaching approximately 19 100 contract and by 16.3 percent of the total, and came in third hotel sector where the Addulacod executed approximately 3.5 thousand contract and by 10.9 percent of the total rate has reached its number of contracts executed nearly 556 800 contract during the first quarter of 2014, compared with 532 500 contract during the fourth quarter of last year. 

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