Economy

In February 2016, Helga Kern boarded a plane to Iran, registered with the depository to trade stocks and within weeks opened a broker account and started buying shares, all with the aim of…

The Central Securities Depository of Iran issued 16,000 new trading codes for investors during the first month of the current Iranian year (ended April 20). According to Securities and Exchange…

The Second Exhibition of Dental Materials and Instruments and 57th International Exhibition and Congress of Iranian Dental Association, also known as EXCIDA 57, were held at Tehran’s Permanent…

Buying activity in the Iranian flat steel import market slowed over the past week, with suppliers unwilling to pass on price rises to customers, sources told Metal Bulletin on Wednesday.

Iran Fara Bourse has joined the executive board of the Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges.

Its membership was decided at the 23rd FEAS meeting held in Tehran on Tuesday.

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Iran’s Shadegan Steel Company started hot commissioning of a new direct reduced iron module on Sunday, the country’s state mines and metals holding company IMIDRO said on Thursday.

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Twitter is banned in China. Instead, the country uses a platform called Weibo. Now, Weibo has more users than Twitter.

Backed by Tencent, Weibo says it’s garnered 340 million monthly active…

Google celebrated the milestone of two million active Android devices across the world by announcing Android Go, a new platform that will help the tech giant to launch cheap smartphones for…

The 14th international ASIALICS conference will be held in Tehran, August 30-31, at Shahid Beheshti University, where scientific exploration and technological development will be key areas of…

A locally developed antivirus and anti-malware patch is now able to counter the WannaCry ransomware attacks, its programmers say.

Iran and Russia have integrated their bank card systems, allowing their citizens to use the cards in each other's country from late August, the Central Bank of Iran announced.

Customers of the now-dissolved Fereshtegan Credit Institution will be gradually reimbursed by Caspian Credit Institution, the Central Bank of Iran announced. Depositors with a maximum 100…

Export Guarantee Fund of Iran signed an agreement with Finland’s state-owned export credit agency, Finnvera, on the sidelines of the Berne Union Spring Meeting in Copenhagen.

Foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif emphasized the removal of banking issues between Iran and India during his meeting with Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday.

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The first major step to implement much-needed reforms in the Iranian banking sector is to be taken by the government in summer when it submits the Banking Reform Bill to the Parliament, the…

The achievements of recent years, including the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, macroeconomic stability, Health Overhaul Plan and export of 1 million barrels of oil are all valuable but…

An Iranian exhibition with more than 20 companies showcased products and services in a wide range of fields, including construction, foodstuff, pharmaceuticals, carpet and shoemaking, in Dushanbe…

CEO of Iran’s Wagon Pars Company says his company was revived under President Hassan Rouhani’s government, which has boosted rail expansion with an eye on propping up domestic industries.

Islamic Republic of Iran Railways signed a memorandum of understanding with Spain’s Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias ADIF on Wednesday to cooperate in rail traffic control.

Iran’s first-ever stone paper factory opened in the city of Shendabad in East Azarbaijan Province’s Shabestar County on Tuesday.

Organized by the German trade show specialist fairtrade in cooperation with their Iranian partners Palar Samaneh, Iran’s 24th International Food, Beverage and Hospitality Trade Fair is scheduled…

Iron ore exports from Iran are now declining, as the volume in April reached 10.46 million tons, which is down by 6% compared to the same period of Iranian. The month-on-month data also declined…

A major Iranian pharmaceutical company has signed a contract with a Turkish entity to produce medicine in the neighboring country.

Secretary-General of Iran-Turkey Commercial Council Jalal…

With only days left to Iran’s presidential elections, the Ukrainian Embassy in Tehran held a gathering of Iranian and Ukrainian officials and businesses this week to discuss bilateral cooperation…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 214.90 points or 0.27% to end Wednesday trade at 80,344.2.

Wednesday is the last weekday of trading in Iranian exchanges.

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