Turkish stock exchange up at Thursday's open

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Thursday at 11,194.41 points, up by 0.54% or 60.33 points from the previous close.

On Wednesday, the BIST 100 index was down by 0.05% to 11,134.08 points with a daily transaction volume of 98.7 billion liras ($2.98 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira (USD/TRY) exchange rate was 33.1000 as of 10.15 a.m. (0715GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 36.2950, while the GBP/TRY rate was 43.0220.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,473.40, and the barrel price of Brent oil was around $84.85.