ISTANBUL
Turkey’s benchmark stock index decreased slightly by 0.09%, or 98.12 points, to start the last trading day of the week at 103,446.23 points.
On Thursday’s close, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index jumped 2.37% to reach 103,544.35 points with a daily trading volume of 9.54 billion Turkish liras ($1.66 billion).
The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 5.7580 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Friday, compared to 5.7360 at Thursday’s close.
The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate also increased to 6.3640, versus 6.3530, and one British pound traded for 7.3920 Turkish liras, while it was 7.3730 at the
