Turkey’s Borsa Istanbul up at close

By Yunus Girgin

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index closed Thursday at 1,546.41 points, up 0.38%.

Starting the day at 1,548.04 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index rose 5.82 points over the midweek's close of 1,540.59 points.

One ounce of gold sold for $1,785.00 by market close, down from $1,790.75 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $64.20 per barrel as of 6.10 p.m. local time (1510GMT) on Thursday.