TEHRAN- During the first 11 months of the present Iranian calendar year (March 21, 2017- February 19, 2018) above 1.035 quadrillion rials (about $23.11 billion) of goods have been traded at Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME), registering 39 percent increase in comparison with the same period in the previous year, IRNA quoted the CEO of Iran Mercantile Exchange (IME) as saying in a news conference on Sunday.

According to Hamed Soltaninejad, during the first 10 months of the current year (ended on January 20, 2018) IME transactions constituted 48 percent of the total trades done in Iran’s capital market.

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