Turkey's Borsa Istanbul flat at Friday's open

ANKARA

Turkey's benchmark stock index slightly rose by 0.02%, or 18 points, on Friday to start the last transaction day of the week at 93,657.50 points.

At Thursday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down 7.26% at 93,639.50 points with a daily trading volume of 8.7 billion Turkish liras ($1.4 billion).

The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 6.3140 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Friday, versus 6.2770 at the previous close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate climbed to 7.0770, versus 7.0200, and one British pound traded for 7.9520 Turkish liras. It was 7.9260 at Thursday's