By Tuba Sahin
ANKARA (AA) - Turkey's benchmark stock index opened the week at 1,589.43 points, up 0.37% or 5.84 points from the previous close.
Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index was up 0.5% to a new all-time high of 1,583.59 points at last week’s close, with a daily trading volume of more than 23.7 billion Turkish liras ($2.4 billion).
From 9.7090 at Friday’s close, the US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate fell to 9.6790 as of 9:30 a.m. local time (0630GMT).
One euro traded for 11.1930 Turkish lira versus 11.1940 at Friday’s close, while the British pound/Turkish lira exchange rate was at 13.0890, down from 13.1160.
One barrel of Brent crude oil was sold for around $83.70 as of 10 a.m. local time (0700GMT).