Baku, Azerbaijan, May 11
By Fatih Karimov - Trend: The Tehran Stock Exchange main index (TEPIX) rose by 183 points on May 11 compared to the previous working day and stood at 63,069, according to the tse.ir website.
The main market and the secondary market indices rose respectively by 82 points and 697 points.
Over 573 million shares, worth about $36 million, were traded.
The capital market value hit $101 billion.
The USD official exchange rate is about 28,000 rials in Iran.
TEPIX rose on April 29 after seven days of decline and stood at 65,634.
The fall in TEPIX came after it soared in the wake of the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group in Lausanne.
Founded in 1967, the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has been one of the world's best performing stock markets in recent years and ranked as the best bourse index in Europe, Africa, and the 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) in 2010.