Turkey's Borsa Istanbul down at Tuesday open

By Yunus Girgin

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s benchmark stock index opened at 1,304.89 points on Tuesday, 5.39% or 74.36 points down from the previous close.

Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down 9.79% to close at 1,379.25 points on Monday, with a daily trading volume of 16.7 billion Turkish liras ($2.12 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 7.9200 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT), down from 7.9380 at Monday's close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was 9.4800 versus 9.4770, and one British pound traded for 10.9600 Turkish liras, compared to 11.0160 at the previous close.

One barrel of Brent oil was sold around for $64 as of 10.00 a.m. local time (0700GMT).