Economy
Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up at Thursday open
BIST 100 index gains over 4.3 points from previous close
Tuba Şahin |
08.04.2021 - Update : 08.04.2021
ANKARA
Turkey’s benchmark stock index opened at 1,422.22 points on Thursday, up 0.31% or 4.33 points from the previous close.
Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index ended Wednesday down 0.19% at 1,417.89 points, with a daily trading volume of 17.6 billion Turkish liras ($2.13 billion).
The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate fell to 8.1600 as of 9:30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) from 8.1720 at the previous close.
The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was 9.7000, down from 9.7320, while one British pound traded for 11.2600 Turkish liras, a drop from 11.2860.
One barrel of Brent crude oil sold for around $62.61 as of 10 a.m. local time (0700GMT).
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