Turkish stock market closes Thursday down

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye's benchmark stock index Borsa Istanbul was down 2.57%, or 62.96 points, on Thursday to close at 2,390.98 points.

Ending the day with a market value of around 2 trillion Turkish liras ($197 billion), the benchmark index posted a daily trading volume of 45.5 billion Turkish liras ($3 billion).

One ounce of gold traded for $1,840.30 by market close, down from $1,855.00 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was up 0.30% to nearly $108.1 per barrel as of 6.12 p.m. local time (1512GMT).