Istanbul Gold Exchange

A TOTAL OF 135 KG OF GOLD SOLD IN FIRST SESSION

ISTANBUL - A total of 135 kg of gold was sold in the first session at the Istanbul Gold Exchange (IAB) on Thursday.
The trading volume in the first session was 2 trillion 373 billion 455 million 500 thousand Turkish liras (TL) on TL-basis in 5 transactions.
The basic statistics of the transactions in the first session at the IAB are as follows:

GOLD TL/GRAM DOLLAR/OUNCE EURO/OUNCE
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Previous Closing Price 17,528,000 408.30 331.20
Lowest Price 17,482,000 - -
Highest Price 17,942,000 - -
Closing price 17,668,400 - -
Average Weighted Price 17,581,148 - -
Transactions Volume (Kg) 135 - -
Total Transactions (each) 5 - -

Trading Volume (TL) 2,373,455,000,000
Trading Volume (U.S. dollar) -
Trading Volume (Euro) -

1ST SESSION'S TOTAL
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Total Transactions Volume (Kg) 135
Total Transactions (each) 5

(BRC-AY) 22.01.2004