ISTANBUL
Turkey’s benchmark stock index rose 1.13%, or 1,092.4 points, on Tuesday to start the day at 97,491.12 points.
At Monday’s close, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index was down slightly by 0.08% at 96,398.63 points, with a daily trading volume of 11.1 billion Turkish liras ($1.6 billion).
The U.S. dollar-Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.7940 as of 9:30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Tuesday, versus 6.7910 at the previous close.
The euro-Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 7.4290, compared to 7.4100, and one British pound traded for 8.5460 Turkish liras, versus 8.5130 at Monday’s close.
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