Turkey's Borsa Istanbul up %0.59 at close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index rose by 0.59% to 116,524.78 points at the closing session of Tuesday.

Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index started the day at 116,426.13 points. It earned 681.77 points from Monday's close of 115,843.01 points.

Tuesday's closing has been the highest level posted since Feb. 21.

During the day, the index hovered between 116,146.78 points and 116,970.70 points.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 839 billion Turkish liras ($122 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 23.3 billion Turkish liras ($3.4 billion).