Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Leasing & Factoring, Electricity and Textile & Leather sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 gained 0.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Park Elek. Madencilik (IS:PRKME), which rose 20.00% or 0.500 points to trade at 3.000 at the close. Alcatel Lucent Teletas Telekomunikasyon AS Class A (IS:ALCTL) added 15.02% or 1.570 points to end at 12.020 and Ihlas Holding (IS:IHLAS) was up 5.13% or 0.020 points to 0.410 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Besiktas Futbol Yat. (IS:BJKAS), which lost 3.45% or 0.190 points to trade at 5.310 in late trade. Netas Telekomunikasyon AS (IS:NETAS) declined 3.41% or 0.38 points to end at 10.77 and Yazicilar Holding (IS:YAZIC) shed 2.86% or 0.60 points to 20.40.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 202 to 135 and 70 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.22% or 2.75 to $1232.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.55% or 0.27 to hit $49.04 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.08% or 0.04 to trade at $51.72 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 0.33% to 3.6220, while EUR/TRY fell 0.30% to 3.8912.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 100.19.