Benchmark index gains 69.30 points at opening session
Turkiye’s benchmark stock index opened Friday at 6,925.41 points, rising 1.01%,or 69.30 points, from the previous close.
On Thursday, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index closed at record high of 6,807.96 points, gaining 0.95% with a daily trading volume of 73 billion liras ($2.7 billion).
The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 26.9528 as of 10.00 a.m. local time (0700GMT), the euro/lira exchange rate stood at 29.6066, and a British pound traded for 34.4952 liras.
Brent crude oil was selling for around $83.61 per barrel, while the price of an ounce of gold was $1,949.90.