Türkiye's BIST 100 closes Tuesday with gains

By Tuba Ongun

Türkiye's benchmark stock index finished Tuesday at 9,748.75 points, hiking 1.91% from previous close.

After starting the day at 9,561.73 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index gained 182.99 points with a daily transaction volume of 76.3 billion liras ($2.24 billion).

The price of an ounce of gold was $2,551.40, while Brent crude oil sold for around $79.18 per barrel as of 6.30 p.m. local time (1530GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 34.0320, the euro/lira exchange rate 37.9936, and the British pound traded at 45.0390 liras.