Investing.com – Turkey stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Sports, Leasing & Factoring and Banking sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 declined 0.77%.
The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were Afyon Cimento (IS:AFYON), which rose 5.81% or 0.34 points to trade at 6.19 at the close. Meanwhile, Logo Yazilim (IS:LOGO) added 4.67% or 2.500 points to end at 56.000 and Deva Holding (IS:DEVA) was up 3.44% or 0.140 points to 4.210 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Besiktas Futbol Yat. (IS:BJKAS), which fell 7.35% or 0.350 points to trade at 4.410 at the close. Tesco Kipa (IS:KIPA) declined 3.95% or 0.060 points to end at 1.460 and Dogan Holding (IS:DOHOL) was down 3.49% or 0.030 points to 0.830.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 215 to 111 and 78 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.18% or 2.35 to $1321.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 1.98% or 0.93 to hit $47.98 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.73% or 0.85 to trade at $50.09 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.52% to 2.9952, while EUR/TRY rose 0.79% to 3.3709.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 95.28.