Turkey's Borsa Istanbul down at open
BIST 100 drops 0.31 pct; USD/TRY exchange rate at 5.3250
By Tuba Sahin
ANKARA
Turkey's stock exchange fell 0.31 percent, or 291.14 points, to open at 94,279.75 points on Tuesday.
The BIST banking and holding sector indices slipped 0.34 percent and 0.31 percent, respectively.
Among all sector indices, the leasing factoring sector index posted the best performance, up 0.36 percent, and the information technologies sector index saw the worst, down 0.81 percent.
On Monday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 closed at 94,570.90, up 1.02 percent, or 954.45 points.
The USD/TRY exchange rate dropped to 5.3250 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Tuesday. It was 5.3350 at Monday's close.
The euro/
The price of Brent oil stood at $66.33 per barrel as of 10.00 a.m. local time (0700GMT) Tuesday, while it was sold for $66 at the beginning of this year.
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