Tehran Stock Exchange reopens after 80-day suspension

• Tehran Stock Exchange resumed trading at 9:00 AM today after an 80-day operational closure.
• While 28% of listed stocks traded in positive territory.
• Total sell queue mounted to 10.3 trillion tomans against 1,575 billion tomans in buy orders.
• More than 40 tickers representing companies damaged during the war remain temporarily suspended.

The Iranian stock market resumed operations today, marking the first trading session of the solar year 2026.

Trading commenced at 9:00 AM on the main floor of the Tehran Stock Exchange following an extended 80-day closure.

The market's return saw highly varied performance across sectors, with a notable portion of heavy-industry tickers remaining frozen as trading resumed for banking and automotive shares.

Trading imbalances

Upon reopening, a significant supply-and-demand imbalance emerged on the trading floor.

The total value of active buy orders stood at 1,575 billion tomans, while the aggregate sell queue surged to 10.3 trillion tomans.

Despite the heavy selling pressure, 28% of all listed stock tickers managed to trade within positive territory.

Conversely, major corporate tickers including National Iranian Copper Industries (NICICO / National Felli), Bandar Abbas Oil Refining Company (Shabandar), and the Social Security Investment Company (Shasta) led the downward trend at the top of the negative territory list.

Sector rollouts

The resumption featured the return of major automotive and banking equities to active trading.

Additionally, several leveraged investment funds were permitted to reopen, though authorities instituted a strict sales cap limiting transactions to 100,000 units per order.

However, the market reactivation remains incomplete. More than 40 corporate tickers belonging to businesses severely affected during the war era -concentrated mostly within the chemical and basic metals industrial groups- were excluded from the session and remain temporarily suspended from trading.