Turkish stock exchange up at Tuesday opening

By Tuba Ongun

The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Tuesday at 10,012.62 points, up 0.15% or 14.96 points from the previous close.

On Monday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index dove 1.26% to close the day at 9,997.66 points with a transaction volume of 69.5 billion liras ($2 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira (USD/TRY) exchange rate was 34.9375 as of 09.55 a.m. (0655GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 36.6809, and the GBP/TRY rate was 44.3141.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,665.61, and the barrel price of Brent oil was around $74.13.