Investing.com – Turkey stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Banking and Transport sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 rose 4.13%.
The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were Turkiye Garanti Bankasi (IS:GARAN), which rose 6.94% or 0.57 points to trade at 8.78 at the close. Meanwhile, Turkish Airlines (IS:THYAO) added 6.79% or 0.910 points to end at 14.310 and Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS ORD (IS:TCELL) was up 6.58% or 0.80 points to 12.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Verusa Holding AS (IS:VERUS), which fell 9.21% or 2.08 points to trade at 20.50 at the close. Ittifak Holding AS (IS:ITTFH) declined 2.80% or 0.120 points to end at 4.170 and Dogtas Kelebek Mobilya Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (IS:DGKLB) was down 2.46% or 0.030 points to 1.190.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 299 to 76 and 32 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.24% or 3.05 to $1292.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.14% or 0.09 to hit $62.55 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.44 to trade at $69.75 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 0.76% to 5.5792, while EUR/TRY fell 0.91% to 6.2587.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 96.912.