Turkish stocks up 1.31% at Monday's close

By Tuba Sahin

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index closed at 1,416.30 points on Monday, up 1.31% from the previous close.

Starting the day at 1,401.59 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index gained 18.30 points from Friday's close of 1,398.00 points.

The price of Brent crude oil climbed to $83.86 per barrel as of 6.13 p.m. local time (1513GMT).

Turkey's current account balance posted a surplus of $528 million in August, versus a deficit of $4 billion in the same month last year, the country's central bank announced on Monday.

Unemployment in Turkey reached 12.1% August, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) data.