Economy

The tablet craze from a few years ago showed more signs of fading this year, with most major producers reporting sales declines, recent market surveys showed.

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The Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) has launched an updated website to check ownership of cellular SIM cards as part of a transparency drive to stop mobile phone dealers holding too many…

Russia’s telecoms watchdog has blocked China’s WeChat, the popular social media app developed by Tencent Holdings, the South China Morning Post reported, citing information posted on the Russian…

Kashan exports about 2,000 tons of rosewater and rose oil every year, accounting for 70% of Iran's total exports of these products, to the Persian Gulf littoral states and European Union countries…

More than one million tons of seafood were produced in Iran in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017), of which about 103,000 tons worth $412 million were exported, the head of Iran…

It has been said time and again that Iran's economy has been struggling with recession for the past few years.

Technically speaking, when growth is negative for two consecutive three-month…

A preliminary deal signed by French construction firm Bouygues last year to build and run a new terminal at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport has been canceled, a spokesman for the French…

Trade between Iran and Ireland saw a 65% rise in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017) to reach €80 million compared to the previous year. According to Iran’s Ambassador to Dublin Javad…

Close to 3.75 million tons of goods worth $878 million were exported through land and water borders of Khorramshahr and Shalamcheh customs offices located in Khuzestan Province and bordering Iraq…

Anzali International Permanent Fairground will host the first international exhibition of gold, jewelry, silver, watch, gemstones and related industries from May 16 to 19. All gold transactions at…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index lost 271.80 points or 0.34% to end Saturday trade at 79,697.4.

More than 980 million shares valued at $77.6 million changed hands for the day.

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The outlook for the production and exports of Iran’s semi-fabricated copper products was presented by Saad Abdi, the National Iranian Copper Industries Company’s planning and supervision manager,…

Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Valiollah Seif announced that the second phase of waiving late payment penalties for non-performing loans will be implemented soon. In the second phase of…

While it could be a time-consuming process, the stagnating housing sector is on track to reenter a period of growth without stoking inflation, the deputy for economic affairs at the Central Bank…

The National Iranian Oil Company exports 2.5 million barrels of crude oil and gas condensates per day to customers from Asia to Europe and the Central Bank of Iran receives the full sale revenues…

Saman Bank has become the first Iranian lender to receive training in Compliance and Financial Crime Prevention based on the International Compliance Association standards.

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A cooperation agreement has been signed by Tejarat Bank and China Development Bank, based on which the Chinese lender will provide a $300 million loan to finance Iranian projects in the latest…

Iran Khodro, a local car producer which assembles a range of different vehicles, has started a new Peugeot Pars production line in western Kermanshah Province.

The factory in the city of…

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for African Affairs announced an upcoming deal with the Senegalese government to upgrade the country’s taxi fleet during his visit to Dakar.

Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla has teased the company’s first all-electric semi-truck in a TED talk held in Vancouver, Canada.

Musk said “the truck was in its prototype phase and the…

Chery’s new Arrizo 5e electric vehicle, based on the Arrizo 5 gasoline sedan, can drive 410 kilometers, according to the company, following its showcase at the Shanghai auto show last month.

France’s CMA CGM, the world’s third largest container shipping group, has launched a Tehran office. “CMA CGM Group has appointed CMA CGM Pars as its new agency in Iran as of May 1, 2017,” reads a…

Iran is in various stages of integrating its bank card system with five countries for the citizens of both sides to be able to use their bank cards in each other's countries, the head of…

Majlis Economic Commission coordinated a meeting between a Thai economic delegation and the Central Bank of Iran to inform the former of Iran’s economic regulations and latest statistics.

In order to improve banking relations and implement agreements signed by the two countries’ central bank governors last year, banking officials of Iran and Iraq signed a memorandum of…