Turkey’s Borsa Istanbul flat at close

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index closed Tuesday at 1,528.82 points, up slightly by 0.09% day-on-day.

Starting the day at 1,526.36 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index has earned 1.37 points over Monday's close of 1,527.45 points.

The price of one ounce of gold was $1,735 by market close, down from $1,742.65 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $63.80 per barrel as of 6.15 p.m. local time (1515GMT) on Tuesday.