Turkish stocks down at Thursday's close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index ended Thursday down 0.17% to close at 1,150.49 points.

After starting at 1,156.74 points on Thursday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index lost 1.92 points from 1,152.41 points at Wednesday's close.

During the day, it hovered between 1,145.25 and 1,159.41 points -- 24 stocks on the index rose, 29 fell and the remaining was compared to Wednesday.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 839 billion Turkish liras ($107 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of some 18.8 billion Turkish liras ($2.37 billion).