According to <i>Azzaman</i> newspaper, the Iraqi Stock Exchange Authority reported that 852,592,679 stocks, valued ID 3,267,720,284, were traded on Baghdad Securities Market by executing 583 transactions on Sunday. The authority added that the total traded shares included 792,281,065 stocks in the banking sector, 18,001,831 shares in industrial sector, 18,461,860 shares in the services sector and 2,729,778 shares in the agricultural sector.

The Atlas Investments' Research Team has put together an Iraq Capital Markets Report, which was prepared specifically with investors' needs in mind. It contains detailed features on all 114 companies listed on the Baghdad Stock Exchange, including financial statements and analysis of the last four years available, making it the single most comprehensive report on the state of the BSE.

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