Turkish stock exchange opens week looking up

BIST 100 index gains 44.83 points at Tuesday opening

By Tuba Ongun

The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Tuesday at 11,109.68 points, rising 0.41% or 44.83 points from the previous close.

On Friday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index gained 0.37% to a record closing level of 11,064.85 points with a daily transaction volume of 101 billion liras ($3.06 billion),

The US dollar/Turkish lira (USD/TRY) exchange rate was 33.0461 as of 9.53 a.m. local time (0653GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 36.0241, and the GBP/TRY rate was 42.8153.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,437.40, and the barrel price of Brent oil was around $84.27.

Borsa Istanbul was closed on Monday as the country observed Democracy and National Unity Day to mark eighth anniversary of the July 15, 2016 defeated coup.

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