ISTANBUL

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Thursday at 12,087.97 points, up 0.49%, hitting a historic closing high.

After starting the day at 12,034.94 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index earned 59.13 points from Wednesday's close.

The lowest value of the index was 11,907.78, while the daily high was 12,152.59.

The market value of the BIST 100 was around 11.96 trillion Turkish liras ($278.45 billion), with a trading volume of 149 billion liras ($3.45 billion).

Some 61 stocks on the index rose and 36 dropped, compared to the previous close.

Gold was at $4,447.35 per ounce, while Brent crude oil sold for $60.75 per barrel as of 6.40 pm local time (1540GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 43.0480, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate 50.3625, and the British pound traded for 58.0140 liras.