ISTANBUL
Türkiye’s benchmark stock index opened Wednesday at 12,231.97 points, down 0.15%, or 18.71 points.
At Tuesday’s close, the BIST 100 increased 0.82% to 12,250.68 points, with a daily transaction volume of 92.9 billion Turkish liras ($1.88 billion).
As of 9.50 am local time (0650GMT), exchange rates stood at 49.3925 Turkish liras to the US dollar, 55.4030 to the euro and 65.5355 to the British pound.
The price of an ounce of gold was $4,146.90, while Brent crude futures were trading at $105.95 per barrel.