Turkey's Borsa Istanbul tops 109,000 points at open

ISTANBUL

Turkey’s benchmark stock index rose 0.32%, or 349.93 points, to start the last trading day of the week at 109,008.91 points.

At Thursday’s close, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index soared 0.89% to reach 108,658.98 points with a daily trading volume of 10 billion Turkish liras ($1.74 billion).

The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 5.7500 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Friday, compared to 5.7550 at Thursday’s close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate fell to 6.3870, versus 6.3910, and one British pound traded for 7.5830 Turkish liras, versus 7.5640 at the previous close.

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