By Gokhan Ergocun
ISTANBUL (AA) - The Turkish benchmark stock index ended at 7,690.75 points on Tuesday, down by 0.6%, or 46.6 points, from the previous close.
The lowest value of Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index during the day was 7,550.30, with the highest at 7,794.94.
The trading saw 38 indexes gaining value, while 61 lost.
The daily transaction volume reached 146.5 billion Turkish liras ($5.4 billion), while the overall value of the index was 6.5 trillion Turkish liras ($241.1 billion).
The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 27.0520 as of 6.15 p.m. local time (GMT1515), the euro/lira exchange rate stood at 29.6090, and the British pound traded at 34.4840 Turkish liras.