• Tehran Stock Exchange’s main index gained 1,041.10 points or 1.31% to end Saturday trade at 80,340.7.

    More than 1.2 billion shares valued at $77.3 million changed hands for the day.

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  • Foreign buyers sharply scaled back Vancouver-area property purchases in September after British Columbia introduced a tax on international investors aimed at cooling the city’s housing market,…

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  • The selloff in euro region bonds this month has delivered a boost of more than €580 billion ($635 billion) to the European Central Bank’s asset-purchase program.

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  • Merger and acquisition activity among the Persian Gulf Arab banks is unlikely to increase despite a tougher operating environment across the region, according to Fitch Ratings, Arabian Business…

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  • Prospects for growth in global trade in 2016 and 2017 have been downgraded again. The World Trade Organization now expects that trade this year will increase at its slowest pace since the post-…

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  • The Brazilian government awarded licenses for companies to build and operate 6,126 km (3,829 miles) of power transmission lines, finding investors for 21 of 24 lots offered in an auction on Friday…

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  • People in the West perceive that money in Middle Eastern (Arab) oil countries grows on trees. Or, to be precise, it's pumped out of the ground. Case in point: Saudi Arabia.

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  • Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Friday unveiled new energy products aimed at illustrating the benefits of combining his electric car and battery maker with solar installer SolarCity…

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  • Russian President Vladimir Putin will organize a gathering of domestic oil producers a week before the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries meets on Nov. 30 to discuss possible output…

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  • Brazil is planning to boost oil production next year, the secretary for oil and natural gas at mines and energy ministry said, despite efforts by OPEC and non-OPEC producers to cut output and ease…

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  • The National Iranian Tanker Company is keen to expand collaboration with Greece in tanker shipping and services sectors in the follow-up to an agreement with Greek shipbuilding firm George…

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  • OPEC officials meeting in Vienna to work out the details of their plan to reduce oil production failed to reach agreement after hours of talks on Friday, amid objections by Iran which has been…

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  • Iran's Petropars Company is talking with international oil and gas majors to forge partnerships to develop domestic exploration and production (E&P) projects under the new model of contracts,…

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  • Tehran has resumed business with mega trading company Vitol Group after the lifting of international sanctions in January, but the Swiss trader gets no preferential treatment in Iran's energy…

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  • EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides who was in Iran from October 22-24 for the second time this year, visited humanitarian projects across the country…

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  • Every five minutes, one Iranian has a stroke, said secretary of Iran Stroke Society Dr. Masoud Mehrpour. “On a daily basis, 288 people have strokes, which adds up to around 300,000 people in the…

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  • An official at the Urmia Lake Restoration Program has dismissed claims that sedimentation on the lakebed has thickened by a meter, saying it is “almost impossible.”

    Speaking to ISNA, Masoud…

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  • Popular video games might make young people more likely to smoke or drink, a new study has asserted.

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  • Another strong quake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale rattled Zarand city in Kerman Province on Friday, October 29, at 5:32 pm local time, leaving 10 people injured. They were transferred to…

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  • Widespread snowfall is forecast across seven provinces of West Azarbaijan, East Azarbaijan, Alborz, Qazvin, Zanjan, Semnan, and Tehran’s mountain peaks on Monday, said Mohammad Asghari, an expert…

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  • A pediatric cardiovascular surgery team comprising specialists from the US and Europe will perform operations on sick children at one of the Social Security Organization’s hospitals in Tehran. “…

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  • Children under six years of age who suffer from malnutrition are taken in by the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee and receive appropriate food baskets and nutritional care.

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  • Renault’s Mouna Sepehri, the top-ranking woman in Europe’s auto industry, sees transactions such as partner Nissan Motor’s purchase of a $2.3 billion stake in Mitsubishi Motors as adding much-…

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  • Russia’s analytic agency AUTOSTAT conducted a study of the Russian new-car market’s taste for the Lada XRAY crossover built by Renault-owned AvtoVAZ in September and some of the results were…

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  • The chief executive officer of Proton visited the headquarters of SAIPA, Iran’s second largest automaker, in Tehran and hinted that the two companies will sign a deal in the near future.

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