Turkey's Borsa Istanbul down at midweek open

ANKARA 

Turkey's benchmark stock index dropped 0.22% or 248.06 points on Wednesday to start the midweek at 110,959.21 points.

At Tuesday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index went up 3.63% to 111,207.27 points with a daily trading volume of 10.07 billion Turkish liras ($1.62 billion).

The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate decreased to 6.1430 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Wednesday, down from Tuesday's closing rate of 6.1640.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.8490, versus 6.8550, and one British pound was traded for 7.8860 Turkish liras. It was 7.9130 at the previous close.

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