UPDATE - Turkey's Borsa Istanbul down at midweek close

UPDATES WITH MORE FIGURES

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey’s benchmark stock index closed Wednesday at 1,391.73 points, down 0.29%.

Starting the day at 1,397.47 points, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index fell 4.06 points from Tuesday’s close of 1,395.79 points.

During the day, the index hovered between 1,389.86 and 1,403.75 points. A total of 34 stocks on the index rose and 59 fell.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 1.06 trillion Turkish liras ($128 billion) by the day’s close, with a daily trading volume of 20.2 billion Turkish liras (nearly $2.45 billion).

The highest trading volumes were posted by private lender Garanti BBVA, polyester producer Sasa and gold miner Koza Altin.

Conglomerate Bera Holding was the best performer, with its shares up 8.82%, while stocks of Net Holding dropped the most, 9.13%.

The price of one ounce of gold was $1,687.00 by market close, up from $1,683.05 at the previous close, according to data from Borsa Istanbul’s Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was around $64.10 per barrel as of 6.15 p.m. local time (1515GMT).