ISTANBUL 

Türkiye’s benchmark stock index was up by 0.5% to 9,125.29 points at the opening session on Friday.

The index has earned 3.1% to 9,079.97 points at Thursday’s close with a daily transaction volume of 96 billion Turkish liras ($2.98 billion).

The USD/TRY exchange rate was 32.3680 as of 10.10 am (0710GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 34.9570, and the GBP/TRY traded at 40.9560.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,233.10, while the barrel price of Brent oil was around $87.60.