Turkey's Borsa Istanbul closes at new all-time high

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey’s benchmark stock index climbed 0.53% to close Tuesday an all-time high of 1,565.01 points.

Starting the day at 1,569.56 points, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index was up by 8.24 points from Monday’s close of 1,556.77 points.

During the day, the index hovered between 1,561.02 and 1,575.90 points.

A total of 68 stocks on the index rose, 26 fell, and the remaining were flat compared to Monday's close.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 1.1 trillion Turkish liras ($156 billion) by Tuesday’s close, with a daily trading volume of 34.3 billion Turkish liras (nearly $4.60 billion).

The price of Brent crude oil was around $55.60 per barrel as of 6 p.m. local time (1500GMT).