Stocks swung between small gains and losses on Sunday, with the Tehran Stock Exchange main index (TEDPIX) inching up 0.07% after the listed petrochemical firms contributed positively to the…
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Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME)’s industrial and mining floor was host to various types of copper offered by the National Iranian Copper Industries Company (NICIC) on Sunday.
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The initial public offerings of four government-owned companies will be launched on Febraury 17, Iran Provitaization Organization (IPO) reported. Close to 90 million shares of Kermanshah Oil…
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The Kish Free Zone Organization announced on Sunday that it signed an agreement with the National Standard Organization to delegate the responsibility of Import/Export Quality Control and cargo…
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G overnmental debt to the banking system surged during the first six month of the current fiscal year. Governmental debt reached 1.28 quadrillion rials ($47 billion at official exchange rates) by…
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The Central Insurance of the Islamic Republic (CIIR) has recently published official statistics on the insurance industry for the fiscal year ending March 20, 2014 (1392). The industry is…
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Ericsson is reportedly in negotiation to partner with the first Iranian 3G operator RighTel, a source familiar with the talks said.
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Fifteen percent of Iraq’s foreign trade is with Iran, announced Yahya Al-Es’haq, the head of Iran-Iraq joint chamber of commerce, in the second conference on introducing business opportunities and…
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In the second quarter of the current fiscal year (June 22-Spetember 22, 2014), the country's economic growth rate was 3.7 percent including the petroleum sector and 3 percent excluding the sector…
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The lopsided implementation of the subsidy reform plan has exacerbated the widening rift between the country’s social classes, IRNA reported.
“As it was anticipated by the CBI in 2012, the…
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Iran’s business activities should be focused on trade with neighboring countries as the economic sanctions imposed by the West keep the country from being a big player in the global market, Majid…
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The agriculture minister, Mahmoud Hojjati, and his accompanying delegation left the country for China on Sunday at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Han Changfu, IRNA reported.
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Plans are underway to expand Aras industrial site on Iran-Armenia border, Akbar Torkan, the presidential chief advisor and secretary of the Council of Iran’s Free Trade, Industrial and Special…
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About 1.3 thousand tons of cigarettes, worth $9.6 million, have been imported in the months of Azar (November 21-December21), accounting for 0.23 percent of the country’s total import in this…
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About 5.9 million tons of different essential commodities were imported to the country during the first nine months of the current year, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Ali Ghanbari said on Sunday…
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Global demand for bitumen is expected to reach 137 million tons by 2020, growing at an annual rate of 2.7% from 2014 to 2020. This level of increase in demand arises largely from the rapid growth…
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Iran’s financial system is currently inflicted with a dangerous disease, with commercial banks investing in businesses and stocks.
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The central bank has urged owners of bureaux de change to comply with new regulations on capital requirement or leave the guild and consider a change of career.
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Benchmark Azadi soared to a nine-month high on Saturday, as Tehran caught up with the rise in demand for bullion on Swiss National Bank’s decision to abandon its self-imposed peg of the Swiss…
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In the first 9 months of the current fiscal year, Bank Melli Iran (BMI) provided 220 trillion rials ($8 billion at official exchange rate) in loans in an attempt to address part of cash flow…
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Social media has become an integral part of daily lives of majority of people that circulates news and information at fastest rate possible bypassing geographical boundaries and barriers within…
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High-tech industrial production has experienced a decline over the past years, despite the growth in other industrial sectors, a report released by Iran’s Islamic Parliament Research Center said.…
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The manufacturing sector experienced nearly four percent growth in the first eight months of the current Iranian calendar year (to end March 20), according to statistics released by the Central…
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About 400 thousand heads of livestock have been exported in the current fiscal year (ending March 20) and plans are underway to increase the rate to one million heads in less than a year, Karamali…
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Japan is ready to share its technical and engineering knowledge with Iranian industrialists, Japanese Ambassador to Tehran Kuji Hunda said in a meeting with Valliollah Afkhamirad, the head of…
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