Turkey’s benchmark stock index rose 0.57%, or 604.73 points, to start the week at 107,193.15 points on Monday.
On Friday’s close, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index fell 0.20% to 106,588.41 points with a daily trading volume of 7.44 billion Turkish liras (some $1.3 billion).
The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate fell to 5.7100 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) on Monday, compared to 5.7220 at last week’s close.
The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate slipped to 6.2980, versus 6.3290, and one British pound traded for 7.3550 Turkish liras, while it was 7.3730 at the previous close.
