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Forex Rates Dip in Tehran Markets

EghtesadOnline: With last week's brief volatility behind, the currency market in Tehran experienced more stability on Saturday. The US dollar, which had surged above the resistance level of 140,000 rials last week, was traded for 137,000 rials in the open market.
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Publish Date: 14/April/2019 | 14:51

IRISL Global Ranking Improves

EghtesadOnline: The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines’ global ranking based on the capacity of freight handling improved from 23rd in fiscal 2015-16 to 13th last year (March 2018-19), IRIB News quoted IRISL Managing Director Mohammad Saeedi as saying.
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Publish Date: 14/April/2019 | 14:47

Bigger Penalties for Mobile Phone Driving in Iran

EghtesadOnline: In a renewed effort to curb the increasing number of road mishaps caused by the distraction of drivers speaking on cellphones, Traffic Police has announced tougher regulations to tame unruly motorists.
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Publish Date: 14/April/2019 | 14:46

Pope Sends Aid to Flood-Stricken People in Iran

EghtesadOnline: Pope Francis has sent a large donation to assist tens of thousands of Iranians who lost their homes and businesses in waves of severe flooding that began in mid-March.
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Publish Date: 14/April/2019 | 14:44

South Pars Gas Flaring Down 21%

EghtesadOnline: Associated petroleum gas burning out of 10 gas refineries operational at the giant South Pars Gas Field off the Persian Gulf decreased by 21.6% last year compared to the year before.
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Publish Date: 14/April/2019 | 14:42

$4.4 Billion in Iran's Non-Oil Trade Surplus With ECO Member States

EghtesadOnline: Iran recorded a non-oil trade surplus of $4.4 billion with members of the Economic Cooperation Organization, namely Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, during the first 11 months of the current fiscal year (March 21, 2018-Feb. 19).
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Publish Date: 14/April/2019 | 14:40

Rural Areas Given Priority in Water Supply Programs

EghtesadOnline: Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said Wednesday 2,000 villages on the outskirts of urban and rural areas will be provided with potable water by the end of the current fiscal (started March 21).
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:54

€420m Repatriated Since March 21

EghtesadOnline: Since the beginning of the current fiscal (March 21) to April 10 am estimated €420 million plus was deposited with Nima (Integrated Forex Rate System). The amount includes both Central Bank of Iran’s own contribution and repatriation of export earnings.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:52

Iran Trade With EU Plunges

EghtesadOnline: Trade between Iran and EU member states during the first month of 2019 stood at €343.38 million to register an 82.72% decline compared with last year’s corresponding period.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:49

Hemmati Signals Interest Rate Cuts

EghtesadOnline: Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnasser Hemmati has announced the bank's decision to alter the liquidity structure by curbing money supply and lowering bank rates.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:47

Gold Prices Slip in Tehran

EghtesadOnline: The benchmark Bahar Azadi Gold Coin that traded at 52.50 million rials ($375) in Tehran during the week, lost more than 7% by Thursday's market close and fetched 48.40 million rials ($345), according to the head of Iran’s Specialized Gold and Jewelry Commission at the Iran Chamber of Guilds.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:45

New CBI Measures to Help Forex Stability

EghtesadOnline: Bank-affiliated exchange bureaux are required to cut the cost on money transfers in order to facilitate currency deals in banknote and hawala, the Central Bank of Iran reported on its website.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:43

Iran Research Institute Wins WSIS Prize

EghtesadOnline: The e-science prize of World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) was bagged by Iran National Research and Education Network (Iran NERN).
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:39

US Oil Prices Up 50%

EghtesadOnline: Venezuela is in chaos. Iran is grappling with US sanctions. And now there is a surge of violence in Libya. Trouble in these three OPEC nations has helped send US oil prices climbing back above $64 a barrel.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:38

1.7m Auto Technical Inspections in Tehran

EghtesadOnline: During the last fiscal (ended in March), over 1.7 million vehicles approached the technical inspection centers in Tehran, the Tehran Vehicle Technical Inspection Bureau said.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:32

Khuzestan Oil Regions in Flood Zone

EghtesadOnline: Flash floods during the past three weeks in the west and southwest are taking a toll on oil production in oil-rich Khuzestan Province, the National Iranian Oil Company's deputy managing director for planning said.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:29

Greenhouse Crop Export Doubles to $500m in Fiscal 2018-19

EghtesadOnline: Some $500 million worth of greenhouse crops were exported from Iran during the last Iranian year (March 2018-19), which shows a more than twofold increase compared with the previous year.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:27

FAO Alert: Desert Locusts Threaten Iran Crops

EghtesadOnline: Iran has been placed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the group of countries where crops face the threat of desert locusts.
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Publish Date: 13/April/2019 | 14:26