Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Tourism, Sports and Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 gained 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Carrefoursa Carrefour Sabanci Ticaret Merkezi AS (IS:CRFSA), which rose 6.40% or 0.45 points to trade at 7.48 at the close. Besiktas Futbol Yat. (IS:BJKAS) added 5.62% or 0.240 points to end at 4.510 and Izmir Demir Celik (IS:IZMDC) was up 5.12% or 0.150 points to 3.080 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Trabzonspor Sportif (IS:TSPOR), which lost 2.96% or 0.090 points to trade at 2.950 in late trade. Galatasaray Sportif (IS:GSRAY) declined 2.76% or 0.94 points to end at 33.06 and Eczacibasi Ilac (IS:ECILC) shed 2.48% or 0.100 points to 3.940.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 163 to 159 and 86 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.13% or 1.65 to $1268.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.83% or 0.95 to hit $50.87 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 2.07% or 1.09 to trade at $51.58 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 0.21% to 3.0554, while EUR/TRY fell 0.53% to 3.3429.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.36% at 98.22.