Türkiye's BIST 100 index closes Monday over 1-month high

By Tuba Ongun

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Monday at 8,044.02 points, the highest close since Dec. 5, 2023.

Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 57.55 points, or 0.72% from last week's close of 7,986.47.

The total market value of BIST 100 was around 6.8 trillion liras ($227.4 billion), with a daily trading volume of 93 billion liras ($3.08 billion).

The price of an ounce of gold was $2,053.85, while Brent crude oil sold for around $77.38 per barrel as of 6.21 p.m. local time (1521GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 30.0953, the euro/lira exchange rate stood at 32.9266, while a British pound traded for 38.2756 liras.