Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 33

15-August-2005

IRAN

Iran To Establish Oil Bourse

The head of the board of directors of the Stock Exchange Council in Iran, Haidar Mostakhdemin Hosseini, said last month that the council had agreed in principle to establish a stock exchange for oil, gas and petrochemicals the first of its kind in the Middle East. The council has also asked the Ministry of Petroleum to prepare studies for the new bourse and draw up the articles of association for the...