ANKARA
Turkey’s benchmark stock index closed Monday at 84,246.17 points, down 1.81% from the previous close.
Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index started the day at 83,044 points. As of the daily close, it lost 1,549.63 points from Friday’s close of 85,795.79 points.
During the day, the index hovered between 82,528.45 and 83,979.22 points.
The total market value of the BIST 100 was around 575 billion Turkish liras ($88 billion) by market close, with a daily trading volume of 8.2 billion Turkish liras ($1.2 billion).
In the first transaction day of the week, eight stocks on the index rose, 47 were down
