Turkish stocks up at Monday’s open

ISTANBUL

Türkiye’s benchmark stock index opened Monday at 5,112.01 points, up by 0.38%, or 19.13 points, from the previous close.

Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index closed Friday at 5,092.88 points, down 0.83%, with a daily trading volume of 48.7 billion Turkish liras ($2.5 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 19.3710 as of 10.06 a.m. local time (0706GMT), the euro/lira exchange rate stood at 21.3056 while a British pound traded for 24.0670 Turkish liras.

Brent crude oil was selling for around $86.27 per barrel, while the price of an ounce of gold was $2,026.30.