Turkish stocks down 1.18% at Monday's close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye’s benchmark stock index went down 1.18% to close at 2,390.79 points on Monday.

After starting the day at 2,419.93, the BIST 100 index lost 28.44 points from last week’s close of 2,419.23 points.

Ending the day with a market value of around 2 trillion Turkish liras (nearly $125 billion), the index had a daily trading volume of 34.3 billion Turkish liras ($2.2 billion).

One ounce of gold traded for $1,790.00 by market close, down from $1,832.00 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul’s Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil increased to $112.7 per barrel as of 7 p.m. local time (1600GMT), up 1.08% from the previous close.