Turkey's Borsa Istanbul starts week on low note

ANKARA

Turkey's benchmark stock index fell 2.79%, or 3,060.64 points, on Monday to start the week at 106,539.89 points.

At Friday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down 1.98% at 109,600.53 points, with a daily trading volume of 8.2 billion Turkish liras ($1.4 billion).

The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.1700 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Monday, versus 6.1070 at the previous close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 7.0370, compared to 6.9130, and one British pound traded for 8.0590 Turkish liras. It was 7.9420 at the last week's close.

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