Economy

Taiwan Futures Exchange will help Iran Mercantile Exchange set up derivatives for gold and agricultural products. Cooperation between the two will focus on jumpstarting options trading on the IME…

Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture hosted a forum attended by 25 businesspeople from Austria’s Vorarlberg Commerce Chamber and their Iranian counterparts on Monday.

Esfahan Steel Company’s rail production line was officially launched last week.

First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri and Minister of Industries, Mining and Trade Mohammad Reza Nemtazadeh…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 494.80 points or 0.63% to end Monday trade at 79,632.3.

More than 1.25 billion shares valued at $110 million changed hands for the day.

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The production of SAIPA’s Pride and Iran Khodro’s Peugeot 405 will stop by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2017), said a top advisor of the Ministry of Industries, Mining and Trade…

Opel will launch its biggest product offensive to date with seven new models, including a successor to its Meriva minivan called Crossland X.

Citroen’s C-Elysee sedan and its carbon-copy Peugeot 301 have both received a facelift for 2017. According to Car News China, the new models, which are expected to arrive in the Iranian market in…

Banks doled out 2.2 quadrillion rials ($73.2 billion) in loans during the first half of the Iranian fiscal year that ended  September 21, marking 45.4% growth compared to the same period last…

A study under the aegis of the vice governor of the Central Bank of Iran has found that discreet internal workings of Iranian banks have largely contributed to their high rate of non-performing…

Central Insurance of Iran Saturday announced that insurance firms will  issue personal auto policies through a central online platform, in line with plans to minimize illegal operation of…

The drought-hit pistachio farms in Kerman Province are dying at a rapid pace.

Until recently, the southern province accounted for 70% of Iran’s pistachio production, but the farms are on…

Fiera Rome Exhibition Center is scheduled to host an event dubbed “Iran Country Presentation” from November 22 to 26, in which more than 100 Iranian companies will introduce investment…

Iran exported more than 64,200 tons of non-oil goods worth $21.4 million to South Africa during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20), registering a 93% hike compared with…

Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi met Turkish Minister of Economy Nihat Zeybekci in Tehran late Saturday.

The transit truck traffic congestion at Iran-Turkey border and…

Data from more than 13.6 million people or 53% of households have been collected from across the country by field officers since the beginning of the door-to-door phase of the eighth National…

More foreign investors are getting permits to trade Iranian securities since the removal of nuclear sanctions against Tehran in January. “Currently, 710 foreign entities are trading in Iranian…

Export tariffs will be imposed on unprocessed iron ore shipments as of the next Iranian fiscal year (to start March 20, 2017), announced deputy minister of industries, mining and trade, Jafar…

A new Bloomberg report takes a closer look at the staggering success of Chinese outbound M&A activity in 2016.

As the year comes to a close, Chinese companies have made…

Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index lost 116.00 points or 0.15% to end Sunday trade at 79,137.5.

More than 565 million shares valued at $39.4 million changed hands for the day.

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The first international and specialized exhibition of meat and related industries known as Meatex opened in Tehran’s International Fairground on Saturday.

Researchers at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology won the top prize in the innovations competition at the Eighth International Conference on Social Robotics in the US.

Samsung Electronics said on Sunday it will offer an artificial intelligence assistant service in the upcoming flagship smartphone, as the South Korean firm seeks recovery from its global…

The finer details of smart cities have been highlighted by the deputy minister of communications and information technology at a local conference held in Tehran this past week.

A new price comparison website called Kalagard (surf goods) has gone online, to add to the already burgeoning pricing websites available in Iran. Users on the website can check the lowest price…

Seven housing schemes for distressed urban areas have been proposed by the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development in a joint initiative by the government, private sector and the public, deputy…