– As the maturity dates of 20% bank deposits issued last year are closing in, now Iran Central Bank prepared a plot to reduce the risk of these massive funds flowing into parallel investment markets. The CBI is to extend the period of these certificated for another year yet with an 18% interest rate and a premature redemption rate of 10%. The important part is
– Brokerage houses ranking for the 11-month period ending Feb 19, 2018 has been announced by Securities and Exchange Organization (Iran SEO) and Agah Group again placed second in terms of electronic trades (e.g. online trading) with 6.68% market share. Electronic trades on Iran Capital Market itself span for 21.5% worth IRR 235,000 bn (cUSD 5.2 bn) of the total trading value.
– Today a new issue of Iranian Islamic Treasury bills offered to the public on Iran Fara Bourse in an attempt to continue the settlement of Iranian government liabilities with the help of Iran debt market. These securities worth 10,000 bn (cUSD 219.78 mn) and will be matured in two years. “TB181” priced at 772,258 to have a YTM of 16.31% and a BEY of 15.11%.
– In a press conference, the Head of the Securities and Exchange Organization (SEO) of Iran briefed the measures taken along with the progress made in the recent past in Iran capital market.
According to the latest reports by the Securities and Exchange organization, the total market cap of Tehran Stock Exchange and Iran Fara Bourse issuers break the cap of USD 88 bn over the April-May of 2017. The average P/E ratio of the market is now hovers around 6.96. The top 10 companies with highest market cap are:
The first cabinet meeting of Persian new year (1396) held the other day with president Rohani pointing out the three unprecedented events in Iran Economy over a course of 15 years. The elected head of state recalled the followings as the major achievements and his legacy in his tenure:
Dr. Rohani cited that also every single penny of required import foreign currency, was funded from non-oil exports, made the trade balance positive after-all and it shall be considered as the high point his administration.
Finally Paid off!
The debt market finally paid off. CBI’s economic deputy announced that the capital market and foreign financing have doubled their shares of the nation’s fund raisings since the last year. “Developments of the debt market have driven down the banking network share by 10%” said Peyman Ghorbani during his keynote speech at Kish Invex 2016. Pointing out the Pro-cyclical effects of recent years’ fiscal policies, Ghorbani pictured the second relic of debt market deepening as the rebate of “business cycles” over the boom and bust periods. Counter-cyclical role, Liquidity Pro-cyclical role along with creating price and credit information are the bold of duties debt market can fulfill.
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After a year the first trades on IFB, Islamic T-bills raised more than IRR 50,000 bn of funds and made the government able to settle part of its debts especially to the contractors. Now the administration is to issue new short term treasuries and develop the market even further.
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