Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up at weekly close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index went up 0.41% to 1,124.17 points at close on Friday.

After starting the last transaction day of the week at 1,130.72 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 4.61 points from Thursday's close of 1,119.56 points.

During the day, the index hovered between 1,123.76 and 1,135.07 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 829 billion Turkish liras ($108 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of some 21.3 billion Turkish liras ($2.8 billion).