Turkey's Borsa Istanbul down at Thursday's close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index fell 5.26% to close at 1,034.40 points on Thursday.

After starting the day at 1,090.61 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down by 57.40 points from Wednesday's close of 1,091.80 points.

During the day, the index hovered between 1,033.82 points and 1,093.68 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 at close was 760 billion Turkish liras ($108 billion), with a daily trading volume of 23.5 billion Turkish liras ($3.2 billion).