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Friday, August 23, 2019

Turkey stocks higher at close of trade; BIST 100 up 1.84%

Turkey stocks higher at close of trade; BIST 100 up 1.84%Turkey stocks higher at close of trade; BIST 100 up 1.84%

Investing.com – Turkey stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Holdings & Investments, Banking and Financials sectors led shares higher.


At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 gained 1.84%.


The best performers of the session on the BIST 100 were MLP Saglik Hizmetleri AS (IS:MPARK), which rose 14.11% or 1.68 points to trade at 13.59 at the close. Meanwhile, Deva Holding AS (IS:DEVA) added 7.02% or 0.410 points to end at 6.250 and Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS (IS:SAHOL) was up 5.12% or 0.43 points to 8.83 in late trade.


The worst performers of the session were Ihlas Holding AS (IS:IHLAS), which fell 3.77% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.510 at the close. Ihlas Gayrimenkul Proje Gelistirme ve Ticaret AS (IS:IHLGM) declined 3.53% or 0.030 points to end at 0.820 and Yatas Yatak ve Yorgan Sanayi Ticaret AS (IS:YATAS) was down 2.22% or 0.120 points to 5.290.


Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Istanbul Stock Exchange by 249 to 101 and 57 ended unchanged.

Shares in Deva Holding AS (IS:DEVA) rose to 5-year highs; up 7.02% or 0.410 to 6.250.

Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.84% or 27.75 to $1536.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.05% or 1.69 to hit $53.66 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 2.04% or 1.22 to trade at $58.70 a barrel.

USD/TRY was up 0.09% to 5.7732, while EUR/TRY rose 0.63% to 6.4300.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 97.645.

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