Türkiye's BIST 100 index closes Thursday looking up

By Tuba Ongun

Türkiye's benchmark stock index closed Thursday at 7,764.95 points, rising 1.33% from the previous close.

Ending its three-session losing streak on Thursday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 102.11 points from the midweek's close.

The index's lowest value during the day was 7,621.34, while its daily high was 7,789.88.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 6.6 trillion Turkish liras ($226.5 billion), with a daily trading volume of 75 billion liras ($2.56 billion).

The price of an ounce of gold was $2,050.55, while Brent crude oil sold for around $79.13 per barrel as of 6.41 p.m. local time (1541GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 29.1573, the euro/lira exchange rate stood at 32.1447, while a British pound traded for 36.9124 liras.