Middle East / Iraq · Business & Economy

Iraq raises official dollar exchange rate to 1,520 IQD

Rank
Running: 20h
Updated: 7h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 6
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 2

Merged into Iraq devalues dinar currency amid Middle East tensions

Kurdistan24 Iraq · English 7 Oct, 06:17 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in العربية (3)

Read at Kurdistan24

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Kurdistan24, 7 Oct, 06:17 UTC.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 06:17 UTC.
Second region: International, with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
Second country: United Arab Emirates, with Sky News Arabia.
Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

17%67%16%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 67%
International 1 outlet · 16%

First movers

Kurdistan24 7 Oct, 06:17 UTC
Shafaq News +7m
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed +1h 52m
Sky News Arabia +2h 28m
Asharq News +4h 48m

Latest arrivals

Voice of America 7 Oct, 18:53 UTC
Asharq News 7 Oct, 11:05 UTC
Sky News Arabia 7 Oct, 08:45 UTC
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed 7 Oct, 08:09 UTC
Shafaq News 7 Oct, 06:24 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 6 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: United States. Middle East 3: Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, English.
Timeline: Earliest article Kurdistan24, 7 Oct 2026, 06:17 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 06:50 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 19:32 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Middle East, Iraq. Topic Business & economy. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 0.60, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Merged into Iraq devalues dinar currency amid Middle East tensions. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.

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Started 7 Oct, 06:50 UTC · Updated 19:32 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Covered by 6 outlets

Americas 1 outlet

Middle East 4 outlets

International 1 outlet