Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up at weekly close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index went up 1.32% to 1,165.70 points at close on Friday.

After starting the last transaction day of the week at 1,152.74 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 15.21 points from Thursday's close of 1,150.49 points.

During the day, the index hovered between 1,150.97 and 1,158.58 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 846 billion Turkish liras ($107 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of some 19.5 billion Turkish liras ($2.48 billion).