Iraq: Economists: Optimism Despite a Drop in Iraq Stock Exchange index

The Iraq Stock Exchange index witnessed a marked drop in today’s session Thursday– as traded shares reached more than 236 million shares hitting an amount that exceeded half a billion and a half million Iraqi dinars. Despite the drop, the bank sector remains the luckiest in comparison with other sectors such as the industry, agriculture, and tourism sectors which registered a low margin of profits along coupled with the instability that characterized the economic reality that  drove many into shunning away from investing in the market