Investing.com – Turkey stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Information Technology, Tourism and Leasing & Factoring sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 rose 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were Afyon Cimento (IS:AFYON), which rose 14.53% or 17.00 points to trade at 134.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Eczacibasi Yatirim (IS:ECZYT) added 10.43% or 0.92 points to end at 9.74 and Vestel (IS:VESTL) was up 10.19% or 0.370 points to 4.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Eregli Demir Celik (IS:EREGL), which fell 3.17% or 0.140 points to trade at 4.270 at the close. Turk Telekom (IS:TTKOM) declined 2.67% or 0.19 points to end at 6.92 and Gsd Holding (IS:GSDHO) was down 2.01% or 0.030 points to 1.460.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 344 to 64 and 7 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.33% or 3.90 to $1177.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 3.15% or 1.83 to hit $59.97 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 3.17% or 1.99 to trade at $64.67 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.11% to 2.7548, while EUR/TRY rose 0.09% to 3.1103.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.12% at 95.11.