Financial Tribune - While many ticker symbols of listed companies were under sell-off pressure, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange closed in positive territory on Tuesday.

The TSE market-cap weighted index, TEDPIX, gained 1,938.34 points, or 0.30%, on for the day to end trading session at 626,466.3.

However, sell-off in many small-cap companies caused the equal-weighted index to close at the red zone and drop 0.24%.

About 5.55 billion shares valued at 52.54 trillion rials ($334.65 million) changed hands at TSE for the day.