Turkish stock exchange opens week down

ANKARA

Türkiye's benchmark stock index opened Monday at 9,602.31 points, down 0.51% or 49.69 points from the previous close.

On Friday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index rose 0.12%% to reach 9,652 points, with a daily transaction volume of 113 billion Turkish liras ($3.25 billion).

The USD/TRY exchange rate was 34.7267 as of 09.51 am (0651GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 36.5626, and the GBP/TRY traded at 44.1035.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,648.80 and the price of Brent crude oil was around $72.49 per barrel.