{"id":723141,"date":"2026-06-24T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723141\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:13:09","slug":"isx-pauses-june-25-trading-for-ashura-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723141\/","title":{"rendered":"ISX pauses June 25 trading for Ashura &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-24T11:14:59+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- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>The Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) announced on Wednesday<br \/>\nthat trading will be suspended on June 25 in observance of Ashura, the tenth<br \/>\nday of Muharram.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the exchange explained that the<br \/>\ndecision follows a directive issued by the General Secretariat of the Council<br \/>\nof Ministers declaring a public holiday for Ashura, which commemorates the<br \/>\nmartyrdom of Imam Hussein bin Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad, in the<br \/>\nBattle of Karbala in 61 AH (680 CE).<\/p>\n<p>Trading will resume on Sunday, June 28.<\/p>\n<p>ISX holds five trading sessions per week, from Sunday<br \/>\nto Thursday, and includes 104 listed Iraqi joint-stock companies representing<br \/>\nthe banking, telecommunications, industry, agriculture, insurance, financial<br \/>\ninvestment, tourism, hotel, and service sectors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Muharram-in-Iraq-New-year-becomes-a-season-of-mourning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Muharram in Iraq: New year becomes a season of mourning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-24T11:14:59+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad The Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[311051,16993,4,450,451,311052,311050,3,452,453,6007],"class_list":["post-723141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-ashura","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iraq-stock-exchange","tag-isx-pauses-june-25-trading-for-ashura","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-trading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}