Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up at Tuesday close

By Yunus Girgin

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey’s benchmark stock index closed Tuesday at 1,549.53 points, raising by 0.87%.

Starting the day at 1,549.04 points, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index was up by 13.34 points from Monday’s close of 1,536.19 points.

One ounce of gold sold for $1,860.60 by market close on Tuesday, up from $1,850.10 at Monday's close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $56.1 per barrel as of 6.00 p.m. local time (1500GMT) on Tuesday.