Muhammed Ali Gurtas
21 June 2019•Update: 21 June 2019
ANKARA
Turkey's benchmark stock index started Friday down 0.13% or 124.06 points to open at 94,033.63 points.
On Thursday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index fell 0.09% to close at 94,157.69 points with a daily trading volume of 9.05 billion Turkish liras ($1.57 billion).
The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 5.7860 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Friday, compared to 5.7470 at Thursday's close.
The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.5350, versus 6.5050, and one British pound traded for 7.3570 Turkish liras, compared to 7.3170.
One barrel of Brent oil sold for $63.38 as of 10.15 a.m. local time (0715GMT) on Friday.
