UPDATE – Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up at Friday's close

UPDATES WITH MORE DAILY FIGURES

By Ovunc Kutlu

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index closed at 1,447.64 points on Friday, up 0.22% from the previous close.

Starting the day at 1,444.82 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index gained 3.18 points from Thursday's close of 1,444.46 points.

The index's lowest value during the day was 1,440.09 points, while its daily high was 1,449.25 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was almost 1.09 trillion Turkish liras ($127.1 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 11.9 billion Turkish liras ($1.39 billion).

A total of 39 stocks on the index rose, 52 fell, and nine remained unchanged compared to Thursday's close.

The highest trading volumes were posted by private lender Garanti BBVA, iron and steel producer Kardemir, and glassmaker Sise Cam.

Aksa was the best performer of the day with its shares up 8.3%. Stocks of Ege Gubre did the worst by slipping 3.54%.

One ounce of gold traded for $1.762,90 by market close, up from $1.750,45 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $70.96 per barrel as of 6:25 p.m. local time (1525GMT).