Turkish stocks down 0.74% at Thursday opening

ANKARA 

Turkey's benchmark stock index fell by 0.74%, or 636.33 points on Thursday to start the day at 84,940.28 points.

At Wednesday's close, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was down 1.38% at 85,576.61 points, with a daily trading volume of 2.9 billion Turkish liras ($444 million). 

The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 6.5030 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Thursday, versus 6.4600 at the previous close.

The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate also increased to 7.1120, compared to 7.0510, and one British pound traded for 7.5360 Turkish liras. It was 7.6490 at the midweek's close.

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