Tehran Stock Index Closes Below 7.93 Million After a 1.77% Drop as Retail Money Leaves

Trading on the Tehran Stock Exchange ended on Tuesday, October 27, 2026 (5 Aban 1405) with heavy losses. Mehr reported that the main index fell 142,867 points (1.77%) to 7,926,919, while the equal-weight index lost 26,815 points (1.20%) to 2,202,753. Donya-e-Eqtesad wrote that the main index had reached about 8,460,000 on October 13 (21 Mehr), so today's close is roughly 6% below that October high. According to Eghtesadnews, the index rose more than 30,000 points in the opening minutes before selling pushed it into negative territory.

The largest drags on the main index were MSMI (National Iranian Copper Industries) at 28,378 points, then Fars (PKLJ) at 12,533, PNES at 8,674, Taban at 6,845 and Shabandar at 6,233. Net retail outflow from equities and equity funds was reported at 7,403 billion tomans (Eghtesadnews, counting rights issues, gave 7,540 billion). At the close 287 symbols sat in sell queues worth 6,094 billion tomans, against 150 symbols in buy queues worth 3,212 billion.

On Farabourse, the main index fell 947 points (1.42%) to 65,992, and its equal-weight index slipped 0.93%.