The wobbly stock market keeps putting investors on the edge, with Tehran Stock Exchange’s benchmark dipping 1,203 points or 1.9% in the week that ended September 16 to close at 62,624.
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The Iranian government’s approach in handling soaring inflation over the past two years has divided economists over President Hassan Rouhani’s economic policies.
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Iran exported 180,000 tons of pistachio worth $1.5 billion last Iranian year, which ended on March 20, 2015. Deputy minister of agricultural jihad, Jahangir Arab, made the announcement on…
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Azerbaijan Republic has signaled its readiness to extend its railroad into Iran’s soil by 2 kilometers, Gilan’s provincial governor announced Wednesday. The construction of a container terminal…
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Russia has lowered customs duties on imports from Iran to 3-7% from the previous average of 27% as part of its efforts to strengthen bilateral trade ties.
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A senior official at the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade has received death threats from cigarette smugglers, in the latest twist of how the impending lifting of sanctions is exacerbating…
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Iran will provide incentives in Chabahar for Afghan traders who use the port as a trade pathway, said governor general of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, Ali Osat Hashemi.
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The CEO of Bank Melli says banks cannot provide facilities for housing loans because they are short of money supply. Abdol Naser Hemmati pointed to the high demand for mortgages saying, “Banks do…
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To provide low-interest facilities for non-musharakah contracts banks need approval from the Management and Planning Organization and the government should compensate the difference in the two…
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The minister of roads and urban development has called for the establishment of a settlement bank to resolve the problem of toxic assets, Financial Tribune’s sister news website, Eghtesad News,…
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The government has projected its foreign exchange rate in the 2016-17 budget at a lower-than-expected rate. ISNA quoted an unnamed official on Friday as saying that the greenback's exchange rate…
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Sukuk or Islamic bonds is a safer alternative to debt securities, an official in Securities and Exchange Organization was quoted Thursday by IRNA as saying.
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The expected changes to the tax regime will lead to higher housing prices and undermine purchasing power of the masses, the director of the National Union of Builders said Friday.
Jamshid…
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Students of physics at the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University have designed and built an environmental pollution monitoring device. Forouzan Faghiri, one of the designers, said…
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The pro-technology government of Hassan Rouhani seems to be pursuing the notion of lifting the filters from social media websites Facebook and Twitter more seriously.
According to Minister…
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Under the leadership of Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard sold hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of products to Iran through a foreign subsidiary, despite strict US export sanctions.
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About 190,000 tons of pistachios will be produced by the end of the current Iranian year (stared March 21, 2015), announced head of Dried Fruits and Nuts Association of Iran.
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Deputy head of National Saffron Council says three tons of Iranian saffron were rebranded in Afghanistan and reexported to the US and Europe under Afghan brands during the last Iranian year (ended…
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The production of raisins is facing a surplus, said head of Nuts and Dry Fruit Union, Mostafa Ahmadi, blaming the glut on low domestic consumption of the dried fruit. “In general, raisins…
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Algerian Minister of Industry and Mines Abdesselam Bouchouareb and Iranian Ambassador in Algiers Reza Ameri, in a meeting in Algeria on Wednesday discussed avenues to expand bilateral ties.
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During a meeting between Portugal’s Secretary of State for Food and Agri-Food Research Nuno Vieira e Brito, who was accompanied by a trade delegation, and Iran’s Minister of Agricultural Jihad…
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Two months have elapsed since the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 countries, and much has been written and said about the necessity of restructuring Iran’s trade regime to accommodate…
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During a meeting between China’s Ambassador to Iran Pang Sen and Governor of Khorasan Razavi Province Alireza Rashidian in Mashhad on Tuesday, the two sides discussed cooperation in the…
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Latest data show about a 30% drop in the value of white cement exports during the first five months of the current Iranian year (ended August 22).
The figures, released by Iran Customs…
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More than 152,000 tons of commodities were offered on Iran Mercantile Exchange’s different trading floors on Wednesday. As IME reported, the oil and petrochemical trading floor played host to 70,…
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