Investing.com – Turkey stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Wholesale & Retail Trade, Technology and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 rose 1.18%.
The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were Afyon Cimento (IS:AFYON), which rose 21.31% or 1.01 points to trade at 5.75 at the close. Meanwhile, Vakif Gmyo (IS:VKGYO) added 10.39% or 0.24 points to end at 2.55 and Karsan Otomotiv (IS:KARSN) was up 6.21% or 0.090 points to 1.540 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Teknosa IC Ve Dis Ticaret (IS:TKNSA), which fell 2.64% or 0.210 points to trade at 7.740 at the close. Eregli Demir Celik (IS:EREGL) declined 2.46% or 0.110 points to end at 4.370 and Tofas Oto. Fab. (IS:TOASO) was down 1.98% or 0.35 points to 17.30.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 262 to 137 and 16 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 1.39% or 16.70 to $1185.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.60% or 0.36 to hit $59.61 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.74% or 0.47 to trade at $62.55 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 1.09% to 2.6658, while EUR/TRY fell 0.95% to 3.0319.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.01% at 94.32.