Iran Reopens Stock Market After 3 Months With 36% of Tickers Still Offline

6 articles · Updated · Al Jazeera English · May 20

Two controlled trading sessions ended Iran’s near-three-month stock market shutdown, but 42 ticker symbols—about 36% of the market—remained suspended and equity funds heavily exposed to damaged firms stayed frozen.
A 3% daily price-move cap and one-hour longer trading windows were used to limit selling pressure and restore liquidity after the US-Israel war hit infrastructure-linked petrochemical, steel, utility and investment companies.
TEDPIX rose 44,000 points on Wednesday to above 3,758,000, with buy queues outnumbering sell queues, though the benchmark remains well below its nearly 4,500,000 record at the start of 2026.
Economists said the rebound may reflect how far share prices had already been eroded by inflation and rial weakness rather than a durable recovery, while brokers and leveraged traders still face unresolved losses from the closure.
Inflation was already above 70% in late April, and the government’s budget squeeze, sanctions and a US naval blockade of southern ports leave authorities little room to stabilize markets unless fighting stops.

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