Turkish stock exchange begins Tuesday up

ISTANBUL

Türkiye's benchmark stock index opened Tuesday at 11,034.02 points, up 0.31%, or 33.77 points, from the previous close.

On Monday, the BIST 100 surged 6.06% to 11,000.26 points, with a daily transaction volume of 201 billion Turkish liras ($4.85 billion).

As of 9.50 am local time (0650GMT) on Tuesday, exchange rates stood at 41.3270 Turkish liras to the US dollar, 48.7430 to the euro, and 56.3715 to the British pound.

The price of an ounce of gold was $3,690.05, while Brent crude oil was trading at $67.20 per barrel.