Nov 1 Economy

سعر الصرف الرسمي للدولار 49.64 ل.س والحر 52.70 ل.س
The official exchange rate of the dollar's 49.64 SL, and 52.70 SL in the black market
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Tuesday - November 1 - 2011 - 15:32:18

Achieved the dollar yesterday gains in trading against the Syrian pound in the local market with the support of the high demand for more than three times the width, rising exchange rate direct the official to $ 49.64 Syrian pounds, and was free exchange rate (in the black market) 52.70 pounds for the sale and 52.60 to buy.

According to the newspaper "Al-Watan," Demand for the dollar, according to the Central Bank of Syria stable at 3.5 million, while the record show him to rise to a level not to exceed one million dollars, but demand continued excellence on the show by 2.5 million U.S. dollars.

And the dollar benefited from near the U.S. Federal meetings that are supposed to conclude that the launch of the third program of quantitative easing to support the U.S. economy.

As for the European currency has suffered a loss in the marginally in front of the Syrian pound yesterday, down the official exchange rate directly for the euro to 69.67 Syrian pounds while trading at a level of 69.95 Syrian pounds the day before yesterday, and the free exchange rate stood at 73.75 pounds to buy and 74 0.00 pounds for sale.

According to a report issued by the Central yesterday there has been a demand for the euro fell to a remarkable level of 10 million euros, compared to 12 million in the first trading yesterday, coincided with the low supply of it to the level of 2 million euros.

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Damascus stock price index for this week

31/Oct/2011 902.89 trading volume 115 thousand
01/Nov/2011 898.17　trading volume 112 thousand
02/Nov/2011 903.82　trading volume 69 thousand

(In a temporal measure, the market is open for 3 days a week only.)

16/Dec/2010 1752.50 (historial high)
24/Oct/2011 896.68 (historical low)

Weekly closing rates
19/May/2011 1323.11
26/May/2011 1256.80
02/Jun/2011 1234.13
09/Jun/2011 1136.82
16/Jun/2011 1133.09
23/Jun/2011 1057.36
30/Jun/2011 1031.04
07/Jul/2011 1067.50
14/Jul/2011 1032.62
21/Jul/2011 1010.06
28/Jul/2011 1013.81
04/Aug/2011 993.89
11/Aug/2011 950.89
17/Aug/2011 951.66
24/Aug/2011 950.73
29/Aug/2011 951.05
07/Sep/2011 933.34
14/Sep/2011 909.16
21/Sep/2011 927.12
28/Sep/2011 957.97
05/Oct/2011 931.37
12/Oct/2011 910.37
19/Oct/2011 897.91
24/Oct/2011 896.68