Turkiye's benchmark stock index down at Friday close

By Aysu Bicer

ANKARA (AA) - Turkiye's benchmark stock index Borsa Istanbul on Friday fell 0.31% to close at 2,458.72 points.

After starting the day at 2,453.69 points, the BIST 100 index went down 7.54 points from Thursday's close of 2,466.26 points.

During the day’s trading, the index hovered between 2,433.32 and 2,470.61 points – 49 stocks on the index rose, and 47 fell, compared to the previous close.

It closed the day with a market value of around 2 trillion Turkish liras ($133.7 billion) and a daily trading volume of 34.9 billion Turkish liras ($2.4 billion).

One ounce of gold traded for $1,909.00 by market close, down from $1,920.95, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent crude oil was up 2.19% to $113.37 per barrel as of 6.12 p.m. local time (1512GMT).