Turkish stock exchange down at open

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Türkiye's benchmark stock index BIST 100 opened Tuesday at 9,253.94 points, marking a slight decrease of 0.25% or 22.8 points from the previous close.

On Monday, the BIST 100 index was up by 1% to 9,276.78 points, with a daily transaction volume of 96 billion Turkish liras ($2.79 billion).

As of 10.15 a.m. (0715GMT), the exchange rates stood at 34.3290 for the US dollar against the Turkish lira, 36.5750 for the euro, and 44.0940 for the British pound.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,606.20, and the price of Brent crude oil traded at $71.70 per barrel.