ANKARA
Turkey’s benchmark stock index dropped 0.07% or 82.69 points on Wednesday to start the midweek at 114,281.84 points.
At Tuesday’s close, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index went down 0.37% to 114,364.53 points with a daily trading volume of 14.57 billion Turkish liras ($2.37 billion).
The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 6.1450 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Wednesday, up from Tuesday’s closing rate of 6.1320.
The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate rose to 6.6820, versus 6.6490, and one British pound was traded for 8.0010 Turkish liras. It was 7.9780 at the previous close.
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