Türkiye's BIST 100 index ends week in the green

By Tuba Ongun

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended the week at 7,993.85 points, surging 2.31% from the previous close.

Carrying its gain for the second day, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 earned 180.45 points from Thursday's close.

The index increased over 1% on a weekly basis as of Friday's close.

The lowest value of the index during the day was 7,812.50, while its daily high was 7,998.42.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 6.8 trillion liras ($234.4 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 94 billion liras ($3.22 billion).

The price of an ounce of gold was $2,050.85, while Brent crude oil sold for around $75.81 per barrel as of 6.30 p.m. local time (1630GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was at 29.0575, the euro/lira exchange rate at 31.7454, and the British pound traded at 36.9257 liras.