Turkish stock exchange up at Thursday open

ISTANBUL

Türkiye's benchmark stock index opened Thursday at 9,782.85 points, up 0.65% or 63.04 points from the previous close.

On Wednesday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index dropped 0.89% to close the day at 9,719.81 points, with a daily transaction volume of 104.1 billion liras ($2.90 billion).

The USD/TRY exchange rate was 35.9280 as of 09.55 am (0655GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 37.4065, and the GBP/TRY traded at 44.8555.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,859.90 and the price of Brent crude oil was around $74.66 per barrel.