ISTANBUL

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Thursday at 10,945.49 points, up 0.28%.

Starting the day at 10,973.54 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 30.84 points from Wednesday's close.

The lowest value of the index was 10,934.18, while the daily high was 11,032.53.

The market value of the BIST 100 was around 10.3 trillion Turkish liras ($243.1 billion), with a trading volume of 113 billion liras ($2.66 billion).

Some 51 stocks on the index rose and 47 dropped, compared to the previous close.

Gold was $4,154.30 per ounce, while Brent crude oil sold for $62.75 per barrel as of 7.30 pm local time (1630GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 42.4260, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate 49.3025, and the British pound traded for 56.3800 liras.