Türkiye's BIST 100 index ends Monday down

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Monday at 11,150.90 points, down 1.27%.

After starting the week at 11.340,42 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index lost 143.47 points from Friday's close.

The lowest value of the index was 11,150.90, while the daily high was 11,324.76.

The market value of the BIST 100 was around 10.5 trillion Turkish liras ($246.2 billion), with a trading volume of 104 billion liras ($2.42 billion).

Some 17 stocks on the index rose and 82 dropped, compared to the previous close.

Gold was $4,324.60 per ounce, while Brent crude oil sold for $61.50 per barrel as of 6.30 pm local time (1630GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 42.9345, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate 50.6380, and the British pound traded for 57.9980 liras.