Dollar down in Tehran
Financial Tribune – The US dollar declined by 1.45% on Tuesday in Tehran ands was worth 119,990 rials. On Saturday the greenback…
Tag Archives: Iran’s currency crisis
Currency rates on upward trajectory
Financial Tribune – The foreign exchange market in Tehran was in turmoil on Saturday amid investors’ pessimism over the prospect of another…
Iran chief banker warns against speculation as currency prices surge
Press TV – The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has warned the people against engaging in fresh round of…
National currency regains 21% of its value: CBI gov.
MNA – Governor of Central bank of Iran says the national Iranian currency, rial, has regained its value by 21 percent against…
Iran’s Central Bank chief speaks out on currency plunge, $15 billion French credit line
Al-Monitor | Rohollah Faghihi: In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, the governor of Iran’s Central Bank, Abdulnaser Hemmati, said he has been…
Iran: Forex fluctuations impact domestic travel behavior
Financial Tribune – A weak local currency has proved to be a boon to Iran’s inbound tourists while a nemesis to its…
Forex falls in Tehran
Financial Tribune – Currency rates continued to descend in markets across the country on Wednesday as businesses took some relief from weeks…
Tehran market: Currency and gold down
Financial Tribune – Currency rates have been of the declining order since last Tuesday amid widespread presence of the Central Bank of…
Prices of foreign currencies remain unchanged in Iran, according to official rate
Azer News – The prices of foreign currencies remained unchanged according to the official exchange rate of Iran, Trend reports referring to…
Iran currency slips to around 7-month lows as US tensions rise
Reuters – Iran’s rial currency extended its fall on Tuesday, hovering around a seven-month low against the U.S. dollar, foreign exchange websites…
Iran’s Rial loses more value against major currencies
Radio Farda – Iran’s battered currency took another significant dive on Sunday against major currencies, breaching the 150,000 rial to the dollar…
CBI to launch new mechanism next week to curb rising prices in foreign currency market
MNA – An official with central bank of Iran (CBI) says that the previously announced one single organized foreign currency market will…
Iran currency, gold enter bull market
Financial Tribune – A mid the upbeat in the Tehran stock market, gold and currency closed the week bullish despite decline in…
Forex rates dip in Tehran markets
Financial Tribune – With last week’s brief volatility behind, the currency market in Tehran experienced more stability on Saturday. The US dollar,…
CBI chief warns of enemy plots to disrupt Iran’s foreign exchange market
Tasnim – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdonnaser Hemmati said enemies have hatched secret plots to hit the country’s…
Iranians line up at dawn for a sanctions meal they can afford
Bloomberg | Golnar Motevalli: Just after dawn Fatemeh Ansari Mokhtari stood alone outside Tehran’s Shahid Baharloo supermarket, gripping the edge of her…
Iran sees stable currency market after turbulent year
Press TV – Iran’s central bank governor Abdolnaser Hemmati says the government is in full control of the currency market that was…
Rouhani: Subsidy policy reform coming
Financial Tribune – Rouhani said despite the pressures and tensions, the government and the central bank were able to control currency rates…
Confronting failure, Iran government mulls new currency policy
Bourse and Bazaar | Maziar Motamedi: Despite mounting evidence that the Iranian government’s policy of allocating subsidized foreign currency for the importation…
Iran: Subsidy choices take center stage
Financial Tribune – Where oversight mechanisms cannot be enforced by the government, allocating subsidized currency will not help but hinder because “the…
CBI to launch new mechanism next month to keep control over forex market
MNA – The governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has announced the launch of an organized market to keep the…
Central bank chief: Nothing but ‘psychological atmosphere’ can affect currency market
MNA – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said Tue. that except for a ‘psychological atmosphere’, nothing can negatively affect…
Iran currency market calm
Financial Tribune – Foreign exchange rates declined on Thursday, after a week of flurry brought the US dollar close to the psychological…
Rouhani’s aide says Gov’t prefers lower forex rates
Financial Tribune – President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff has denied recent claims by selected news outlets that the government for politically…
Iran’s CB announces new incentives for currency repatriation
Financial Tribune – In a bid to encourage companies to return their export earnings to the country, the Central Bank of Iran…
Gold, forex settle lower in Tehran market
Financial Tribune – Mohammad Kashtiaray, president of the specialized gold commission at the Iran Chamber of Guilds, says the gold coin has…
Iran acted appropriately in preserving currency value: Envoy
IRNA – Iran’s Ambassador in London Hamid Baeidinejad said on Wednesday that despite sanctions imposed on Iran, Tehran acted appropriately in maintaining…
Iranian central banker sees stable rial despite pressure from US
Bloomberg | Golnar Motevalli: Iran has adequate currency supplies to cover trade, and the rial has stabilized after “a heavy attack” from…
Iran’s Central Bank to launch integrated currency market
Tasnim – The Central Bank of Iran is going to launch a unified currency market that would handle the flow of money…
Central Bank of Iran closing loopholes in currency allocation
Financial Tribune – The Central Bank of Iran is going to launch a mechanism for tracking forex allocated to the import of…
The economic war against Iran
LobeLog | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: There is a telling line in Thomas Erdbrink’s recent report on Iran’s roiling currency crisis. Erbrink speaks to Kaveh…
Top banker upbeat on durable stability in Iran’s currency market
Tasnim – The Central Bank of Iran would maintain control over the country’s currency market despite the hostile attempts by the US…
Gold in Tehran steady despite Int’l rally
Financial Tribune – Despite an uptick in gold prices in international markets on Monday, the yellow metal stayed almost unchanged in Tehran…
Dropping zeros from bills to stabilize Iran economy: Agency
IRNA – Iran’s decision to slash four zeros from its currency will improve the economic situation in the country and gain more…
Currency reconversion not a turning point in economic reformation
MNA | Haniyeh Sadat Jafariyeh: One of Iran’s main economic policies, under the framework of the sixth five-year development plan, is modification of…
Top banker: Removing zeros from Iran’s currency not to impact inflation
Tasnim – Governor of the Central Bank of Iran described a plan to lop off four zeros from the country’s currency as…
Iran’s Intelligence busts network of currency fraud, money laundering
Tasnim – The Iranian Intelligence Ministry apprehended members of a network that has been earning huge profits by smuggling foreign currency, tax…
Iran’s Central Bank urges exporters to return currency earnings
Financial Tribune – In its latest directive, the Central Bank of Iran, on Tuesday urged exporters to return their export earnings to…
Court hearing session of forex misusers held in Tehran
IRNA – The first session of the court hearing for six misusers of forex market fluctuations was held here on Tuesday. Two…
Tehran currency market becomes more stable
Financial Tribune – After unexpected gains in currency rates over the past week, the market returned to stability on Thursday. On the…