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Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index hits 71,978 units

Business Materials 15 October 2014 18:33 (UTC +04:00)

Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:

Tehran Stock Exchange's main index (TEPIX) increased by 85 units on October 15, standing at 71,978 units.

The first market's index also increased by 71 units on October 15 and reached 52,934 units.

The second market's index faced a 112-unit rise and stood at 142,160 units.

Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Ali Tayebnia has ordered insurance companies and major banks to support the country's capital market.

Bank Melli Iran, Bank Mellat, Bank Sepah, and Tejarat Bank are supposed to inject some 40 trillion rials (some $1.33 billion based on the exchange rate of USD at the free market) to the Capital Market Development Fund in near future.

The main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TEPIX) started the previous Iranian calendar year (which stated on March 21, 2013) with a surprising rise, but faced a disappointing fall in the last two months of the year.

TEPIX stood at 39,000 units in the second working day of the previous year, but surpassed 89,500 units in the 10th calendar month.

Tehran Stock Exchange's main index has experienced a falling trend ever since.

Founded in 1967, the Tehran Stock Exchange has been one of the world's best performing stock markets in recent years and has ranked as the best bourse index in Europe, Africa and Middle East in 2010 in terms of performance of the main index.

The TSE's annual growth rate of main indices also ranked as the second best among all members of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE).

The WFE is the association of 52 regulated exchanges around the world which aims to develop and promote standards in the markets.

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