Turkish stock exchange begins week looking up

Türkiye's benchmark stock index opened Monday at 9,795.24 points, an increase of 0.25% or 24.08 points from the previous close.

On Friday, the BIST 100 index decreased by 1.67% to 9,771.16 points, with a daily transaction volume of 74 billion liras ($2.17 billion)

The USD/TRY exchange rate was 33.9857 as of 9.55 a.m. (0655GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 37.6487, and the GBP/TRY traded at 44.5905.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,518.90, and the price of Brent crude oil was around $71.89 per barrel.