Turkey's Borsa Istanbul flat at Friday close

By Gokhan Ergocun

ISTANBUL (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index closed the week at 1,537.89 points, slightly down 0.01% day-on-day.

Starting Friday at 1,533.43 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index has lost 0.15 points over Thursday's close of 1,538.04 points.

The price of one ounce of gold was $1,712.30 by market close, up from $1,697.95 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $69 per barrel as of 6.15 p.m. local time (1515GMT) on Friday.