Turkish stocks up 0.43% at midweek close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index closed the day at 1,091.80 points on Wednesday, up 0.43% from the previous close.

After starting the day at 1,095.29 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index rose 4.64 points from 1,087.16 points at Tuesday's close.

On Wednesday, the BIST 100 hovered between 1,066.13 and 1,100.56 points -- 48 stocks on the index rose, 47 fell, and the remaining were flat compared to the previous close.

Closing the day with a market value of some 804 billion Turkish liras ($116 billion), the benchmark index posted a daily trading volume of 23 billion Turkish liras ($3.2 billion).