Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) reported weekly trading turnover exceeding 2.5 billion Iraqi dinars ($1.68 million) for the previous trading week, according to an official market report published on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
Across the five trading sessions, shares of 57 joint-stock companies were actively traded out of 103 listed entities. Equities of 36 firms saw zero transactions due to pricing bid-ask disparities between buy and sell orders, while 11 companies remained suspended from trading for failing to meet mandatory corporate financial disclosure and regulatory reporting deadlines.
Trading volume expanded by 6.8% compared to the prior week, reaching 1.852 billion traded shares. However, total trading value contracted by 67% to 2.560 billion dinars, executed across 3,676 transactions. The main price benchmark, the ISX60 index, closed at 943.57 points, shedding 1.54% from its previous session close.
Foreign investment activity posted net inflows into domestic equities. Non-Iraqi investors bought 158 million shares valued at 331 million dinars over 55 contracts, while foreign selling remained muted, tallying 5 million shares worth 10 million dinars across 38 transactions.
The exchange convenes trading across five weekly sessions from Sunday through Thursday, listing 103 joint-stock enterprises spanning banking, telecommunications, industry, agriculture, insurance, financial investment, tourism, and services.
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