Borsa Istanbul down at Monday's close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index ended Monday down 0.07% at 1,329.90 points.

After starting the week at 1,329.58 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index dropped 0.97 points from 1,330.87 points at Friday's close.

During the day, the index hovered between 1,326.13 and 1,334.54 points -- 41 stocks on the index rose, 57 fell, compared to Friday.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 985 billion Turkish liras ($126 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 28.5 billion Turkish liras ($3.6 billion).

The price of Brent crude oil was around $48.73 per barrel as of 6.15 p.m. local time (1515GMT) on Monday.