Turkish stocks up 2.36% at Monday's close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index ended the day up 2.36% to close at 118,485.24 points on Monday.

After starting the week at 117.384,51 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index climbed 2,736.77 points from 115,748.47 points at last week's close.

During Monday's trading, the BIST 100 hovered between 115,311.53 points and 117,391.24 points -- 24 stocks on the index rose, 29 fell, and the remaining were flat compared to the previous close.

Closing the day with a market value of nearly 861 billion Turkish liras ($125 billion), the benchmark index posted a daily trading volume of 21.7 billion Turkish liras ($3.16 billion).