Turkish stock exchange up at open

By Tuba Ongun

The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Tuesday at 10,678.75 points, up 0.20% or 21.79 points over the previous close.

At Monday's close, the BIST 100 index dropped 0.18% to 10,656.96 points, with a daily transaction volume of 90 billion liras ($2.80 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira (USD/TRY) exchange rate was 32.1775 as of 10 a.m. (0700GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 35.0150, while the GBP/TRY rate was 41.0922.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,342.80, and the barrel price of Brent oil was around $82.84.