TEHRAN- TEDPIX, the main index of Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), gained 24,493 points to 2.136 million on Monday.

As reported, 13.71 billion securities worth 83.112 trillion rials (about $169.6 million) were traded at the TSE.

Head of Iran’s Securitas and Exchange Organization (SEO) Majid Eshqi has said that using the capacities of the country’s private sector in the stock market has been one of the main strategies of the organization over the past year.

“One of the main approaches of the Securitas and Exchange Organization during the past year has been to use the power of the private sector, because government entities and the public sector do not have the necessary characteristics for economic prosperity, so we must increase the share of the private sector in the capital market,” Eshqi said in a conference in Khorasan Razavi Province last month.

Large industries have their own problems and fluctuations, but small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can compensate for these fluctuations, the official said, adding that the main part of the world economy is moving towards small and medium-sized companies because value, employment, and innovation lie in such companies.

The SEO head further noted that the stock market should mainly focus on investment and financing, saying: “We need to direct the liquidity flow towards production.”

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