Türkiye's BIST 100 down at Wednesday's close

ISTANBUL

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Wednesday at 13,115.13 points, down 0.78% day-by-day.

After starting the day at 13,260.12 points, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index lost 102.47 points from Tuesday's close.

The stock exchange traded for half a day on Thursday due to the eve of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, and will be closed on Friday.

The lowest value of the index was 13,062.27, while the daily high was 13,298.53.

The market value of the BIST 100 was around 12.8 trillion Turkish liras ($290.5 billion), with a trading volume of 134 billion liras ($3.03 billion).

A total of 26 stocks on the index rose and 70 dropped, compared to the previous close.

Gold was $4,865.20 per ounce, while Brent crude futures traded for $104.1 per barrel as of 6.55 pm local time (1555GMT).

The US dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate was 44.2180, the euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was 51.1145, and the British pound traded for 59.0820 liras.