Turkish stocks close week up 0.20%

ANKARA

Turkey's benchmark stock index ended Friday up 0.20% to close at 99,405.03 points.

Starting the day at 99,289.45 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index surged 196.54 points from Thursday's close at 99,208.49 points.

The price of Brent oil was $58.75 per barrel as of 6 p.m. local time (1500GMT) on Friday.

At the beginning of 2019, a barrel of Brent oil sold for around $53.