Articles
Neutral, dated analysis and explainers across Iran’s markets.
What Is a Money Corridor? How Hawala, the Dirham and Tether Move Money
A money corridor is the route value, not necessarily cash, takes from one country to another. This lesson explains how hawala works, why the UAE dirham anchors so many of these routes, and why Tether has become the "digital dollar" on them, along with their real risks, with no advice on whether to use them.
Bitcoin Reached About $79,650 Today, Its Strongest Month in Over a Year, But It's Still Well Below Its All-Time Record (Thursday, August 27, 2026)
Bitcoin traded around $79,650 today, Thursday, August 27, 2026, per CoinGecko, ArzDigital and TradingEconomics. The world's largest cryptocurrency is having its best monthly performance in over a year, but it remains clearly below its October 2025 all-time record. The main driver has been the US Treasury's August 19 decision to roughly double its long-dated bond buybacks.
Why Did the Global Ounce Fall While the Coin Got More Expensive?
We break a coin's price into three parts, the global ounce, the domestic dollar, and the premium, and use a real, dated case from July 2026 to show how these parts can move in opposite directions overnight.
Who Sets OPEC+ Oil Quotas? The Monitoring Committee and Russia's Role
How does OPEC+ actually set each member's oil quota? This lesson covers the two decision layers, the seven voluntary producers and the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC), Russia's role beside Saudi Arabia, and how that differs from the separate Eurasian Economic Union.
Bitcoin Tops $72,000 to Its Highest Since Early June as the US Treasury Doubles Long-Term Bond Buybacks (Thursday, 20 August 2026)
Bitcoin climbed about 5.3% on Thursday, 20 August 2026, pushing past $72,000 to $72,415, its highest level since early June, according to CoinGecko and Sahmino data. The jump accelerated after the US Treasury said it would double buybacks of old long-term government bonds, a move markets read as indirect quantitative easing that weakens the dollar and lifts scarce assets like bitcoin. Around $1.5 billion of short positions were forced to cover.
Global & Regional Equity Indices: From the S&P 500 to Tadawul and Borsa Istanbul
Stock indices are built from three different weighting families: price-weighted, market-cap-weighted and free-float-weighted. Meet the S&P 500, Saudi Arabia's Tadawul and Borsa Istanbul 100, and see why their numbers can never be compared directly to Tehran's non-free-float headline index.
The Dollar Index (DXY): One Number That Usually Sends Gold the Other Way
Learn what the six currencies behind the Dollar Index (DXY) are, what it means when it rises or falls, why it tends to move opposite to gold, and how that link reaches gold and coin prices in Iran.
Brent, WTI, and the OPEC Basket: What They Are and Why Their Prices Differ
Learn what Brent, WTI, and the OPEC Reference Basket are, why their prices differ, and how oil's swings travel straight into Iran's state budget and currency market, with a worked example and dated real figures.
One Ounce of Gold in the World; Two Numbers That Set Its Price in Iran
Learn exactly what a gold ounce (troy ounce) is, why the world prices gold in dollars per troy ounce, and how that one global number, combined with Iran's dollar rate, builds the toman price of gold and coin at home.
Ethereum Unveils Four-Year Roadmap: Biggest Protocol Rebuild Since The Merge (Monday, July 6, 2026)
Vitalik Buterin unveiled the "Lean Ethereum" roadmap on Saturday, July 4, 2026: a three-to-four-year plan to cut transaction finality from 16 minutes to seconds and harden the network against quantum computers by 2029. Ether traded near $1,791 on Monday, July 6, up nearly 13% for the week.
