Turkey's Borsa Istanbul down at close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index closed at 98,737.52 points on Tuesday, down 0.11% from the previous close.

Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index started the day at 99,634.31 points. As of the daily close, it dropped 104.72 points from Monday's close of 98,842.24 points.

During the day, the index's lowest level was 97,880.46 points and the highest was 99,791.34 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 694 billion Turkish liras ($99 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 10.1 billion Turkish liras ($1.4 billion).