Tehran, Iran, Nov. 29
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
Tehran Stock Exchange's main index (TEPIX) decreased by 831 units on Nov. 29, reaching 73,245 units.
The first market's index also decreased by 623 units and reached 54,149 units.
The second market's index faced a 1,563-unit fall and hit 142,802 units.
Iran's capital market value also surpassed 3,329 trillion rials (about $102.81 billion based on the exchange rate of USD at the free market).
Iran's capital market value stood at 3,294,481 billion rials (about $102.952 billion based on the exchange rate of USD at the free market) at the end of the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (September 22).
The figure shows a 9.3 percent increase compared to the first half of the previous calendar year.
However, the figure is 14.8 percent less compared to the last working day of the previous calendar year.
Tehran Stock Exchange's main index stood at 71,686 units at the end of the first six months of the current year, which is 3 percent less than the same index in the first half of the previous year.
Some 2,661,612 people traded stocks at the Tehran Stock Exchange from the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21) so far.
The number of customers shows 37 percent increase compared to the previous year, Iran 's IRNA News Agency reported on Nov. 21.
Some 104.721 billion shares worth $403.015 billion rials (some $12.59 billion based on the exchange rate of US dollar at the free market) were traded in the mentioned period.
Ali Salehabadi, chairman of the Iranian Securities and Exchange Organization, said on November 19 that the country's capital market has snapped out of recession.
"Currently some 40-50 billion rials (some $1.25-1.5 million based on the exchange rate of US dollar at the free market) worth of transactions is being done each day which is a good sign," he explained, Iran's Mehr News Agency reported.
"The main index is also on the rise, which shows that the situation at the exchange market is good," he said.
Salehabadi said on Oct. 31 that some 200 trillion rials (some $6.25 billion based on the exchange rate of US dollar at the free market) have been injected to the country' stock market from the begging of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20) until the end of October.
Iran's SHANA news agency reported on Oct. 29 that the Tehran Stock Exchange market capitalization amounted to $105 billion at the end of the past Iranian calendar month of Mehr (October 22).
The figure showed a five percent fall compared to the same period in the previous year.
USD exchange rate in Iran is currently about 32,000 rials.
Chemical companies' group topped the market capitalization list, with $24 billion in value, followed by financial institutions group and metals groups, with $11.5 billion and $11 billion in value, respectively.
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.
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 second 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 markets.