{"id":812554,"date":"2026-08-13T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812554\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:06:11","slug":"cbi-reserves-fall-sharply-to-77-8b-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/812554\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI reserves fall sharply to $77.8B &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-13T17:09:07+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 Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has recorded notable<br \/>\nshifts and a marked decline in its financial indicators, with the bank&#8217;s net<br \/>\nclaims on the government rising even as official reserves shrink, economist<br \/>\nManar al-Obaidi, head of the Future Iraq Foundation for Economic Studies and<br \/>\nConsultancy, revealed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>CBI net claims on the government registered a sharp<br \/>\nincrease, reaching 66.6 trillion dinars (approximately $50.8B), compared to 35<br \/>\ntrillion dinars (approximately $26.7B) at the start of 2025, al-Obaidi said,<br \/>\nbased on an economic reading drawing on the latest operational and banking<br \/>\ndata.<\/p>\n<p>Net official <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Economy\/CBI-reserves-slide-7B-in-H1-2026%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reserves<\/a> held by the central bank fell to<br \/>\n102 trillion dinars (approximately $77.8B), down from 130 trillion dinars<br \/>\n(approximately $99.2B) at the start of 2026, al-Obaidi added, noting that July<br \/>\nalone saw the central bank lose approximately 10.3 trillion dinars<br \/>\n(approximately $7.9B) from its foreign currency and banking reserves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-13T17:09:07+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,344804,344803,451,14945,3,1696,452,453],"class_list":["post-812554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cbi","tag-cbi-reserves-fall-sharply-to-77-8b","tag-headlines","tag-iraq","tag-news","tag-reserves","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812554","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=812554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}