Borsa Istanbul up 3.21% at close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index closed Tuesday up 34.53 points or 3.21% to reach 1,110.05 points.

Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index started the day up with a 0.62% hike to open at 1,082.24 points, compared 1,075.52 points on Monday's close.

On Tuesday, the BIST 100 hovered between 1,082.24 and 1,106.12 points -- 48 stocks on the index rose and five fell compared to the previous close.

Closing the day with a market value of some 815 billion Turkish liras ($111 billion), the benchmark index posted a daily trading volume of 25 billion Turkish liras ($3.4 billion).