Investing.com – Turkey stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Tourism, Banking and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 declined 1.34%.
The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were Ihlas Holding AS (IS:IHLAS), which rose 9.52% or 0.040 points to trade at 0.460 at the close. Meanwhile, Goltas Goller Bolgesi Cimento Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (IS:GOLTS) added 4.87% or 0.50 points to end at 10.77 and ENKA Insaat ve Sanayi AS (IS:ENKAI) was up 2.96% or 0.150 points to 5.210 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sekerbank TAS (IS:SKBNK), which fell 5.61% or 0.060 points to trade at 1.010 at the close. GSD Holding AS (IS:GSDHO) declined 5.10% or 0.050 points to end at 0.930 and Akbank TAS (IS:AKBNK) was down 3.66% or 0.24 points to 6.31.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 249 to 117 and 40 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.07% or 0.85 to $1275.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.22% or 0.14 to hit $63.62 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.10% or 0.07 to trade at $71.69 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 1.15% to 5.8024, while EUR/TRY rose 0.65% to 6.5210.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 97.058.