Tehran Stock Exchange Index Rises Over 2% for a Third Straight Day, Tops 5.5 Million Points for the First Time

Tehran's stock exchange rose more than 2 percent for a third consecutive session on Saturday, August 8, 2026 (17 Mordad 1405). According to the newspaper Donya-e-Eqtesad, the benchmark TEDPIX index climbed 133,000 points, or 2.47 percent, in mid-session trading to top 5,541,000 points for the first time, while the equal-weight index rose 2.53 percent. Sahmino's own data recorded the index closing that session up 127,077 points (2.35 percent) at 5,534,979, with the equal-weight index up 39,339 points to 1,573,900.

Donya-e-Eqtesad reported 794 symbols traded higher against only 14 lower, with buy orders for shares running near 35 trillion tomans against 217 billion tomans of sell orders, a gap underscoring heavy demand. On liquidity flows, retail investors put more than 4 trillion tomans of net new money into equities the same day, while fixed income funds saw 3.3 trillion tomans of outflows, a shift the paper said points to some retail capital moving from lower risk instruments back into stocks.