Turkish stock exchange ends Monday down

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Monday at 14,484.91 points, down 0.71% from its previous close.

After starting the week at 14,462.37 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index lost 103.02 points from Friday's close.

The lowest value of the index was 14,414.81, while the daily high was 14,609.86.

The market value of the BIST 100 was around 12.51 trillion Turkish liras ($284.9 billion), with a trading volume of 205.5 billion liras ($4.58 billion).

Some 25 stocks on the index rose and 73 fell compared to the previous close.

Gold was $4,802.10 per ounce, while Brent crude oil futures sold for $96.60 per barrel as of 6.30 pm local time (1530GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 44.8725, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate 52.9370, and the British pound traded for 60.7720 liras.