IME Logs $1.8b Trade in 1 Month

More than 2.92 million tons of goods worth 406 trillion rials ($1.8 billion) were traded at the Iran Mercantile Exchange in the last Iranian month to May 21. 
The deals increased 6% in volume and 16% in value compared to the month before, the IME public relations website reported.
It said monthly trade of 400 trillion rials is a record an IME trade.  The market is a commodities exchange in Tehran founded in 2006 to handle trade in farm, industrial and petrochemical products in the spot and futures markets.