Türkiye's Borsa Istanbul hits new record high at close

ANKARA

Türkiye's benchmark stock index ended Monday at 3,164.96 points, up 0.60% or 18.86 points from last week's close, hitting a new record high.

The index's lowest value during the day was 3,110.60, while its daily high was 3,174.02.

The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 2.5 trillion Turkish liras ($138 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 63.4 billion Turkish liras ($3.5 billion).

During the day, 40 stocks on the index rose, 57 fell, and the remaining was unchanged compared to the previous close.

The price of an ounce of gold was $1,734.00, while Brent crude oil sold at around $101.98 per barrel as of 18.22 p.m. local time (1522GMT).