Turkish stock exchange up at Thursday's open

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Thursday at 10,391.45 points, up by 0.39% or 40.50 points from the previous close.

On Wednesday, the BIST 100 index dropped by 0.13% to 10,350.96 points with a daily transaction volume of 108 billion liras ($3.31 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira (USD/TRY) exchange rate was 32.2600 as of 10.45 a.m. (0745GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 35.2175, while the GBP/TRY rate was 41.2670.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,363.10, and the barrel price of Brent oil was around $78.90.