Investing.com – Turkey stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Wholesale & Retail Trade, Banking and Information Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 fell 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were Ege Endustri (IS:EGEEN), which rose 3.94% or 10.70 points to trade at 282.50 at the close. Meanwhile, KOC Holding (IS:KCHOL) added 3.03% or 0.43 points to end at 14.62 and Nurol Gmyo (IS:NUGYO) was up 2.87% or 0.120 points to 4.300 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Vestel (IS:VESTL), which fell 6.49% or 0.460 points to trade at 6.630 at the close. Koza Madencilik (IS:KOZAA) declined 2.87% or 0.060 points to end at 2.030 and Galatasaray Sportif (IS:GSRAY) was down 2.48% or 0.82 points to 32.22.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 198 to 145 and 64 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 0.95% or 11.45 to $1216.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.83% or 0.44 to hit $52.78 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.41% or 0.23 to trade at $55.26 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 0.21% to 3.7605, while EUR/TRY rose 0.15% to 4.0396.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.52% at 100.25.