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Turkish stock market closes Thursday higher


ANKARA 

Turkiye’s benchmark stock index Borsa Istanbul was up 1.47% or 35.71 points on Thursday to close at 2,466.26 points.

At Friday’s close, the last transaction day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, the BIST 100 index was slightly up by 0.09% to 2,494.37 points.

Closing the day with a market value of around 2 trillion Turkish liras ($135 billion), the benchmark index posted a daily trading volume of 36.4 billion Turkish liras ($2.5 billion).

The price of Brent crude oil was up 0.65% to nearly $111 per barrel as of 6.12 p.m. local time (1512GMT).

Exchange Rates Friday Thursday
USD/TRY
14.8630
14.8610
EUR/TRY 15.6550 15.6750
GBP/TRY 18.7000 18.4210



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