Turkish stock market up at midweek open

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye's benchmark stock index opened at 2,514.43 points on Wednesday, up 0.50%, or 12.47 points.

Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index jumped 2.07% to 2,501.96 points at Tuesday's close, with a daily trading volume of 31.7 billion Turkish liras ($1.8 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate went down to 17.5633 as of 10.00 a.m. local time (0700GMT) from 17.5800 at the previous close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was slightly up to 18.0221 from 18.0130, while a British pound traded for 21.1052 Turkish liras, down from 21.2350 at the previous close.

Brent crude oil was down 1.08% to $106.25 per barrel.