Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic, Banking and Metal Products & Machinery sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 added 1.80%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Tat Konserve (IS:TATGD), which rose 5.10% or 0.240 points to trade at 4.950 at the close. Metro Holding (IS:METRO) added 4.40% or 0.040 points to end at 0.950 and Arcelik (IS:ARCLK) was up 4.24% or 0.60 points to 14.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ulker Biskuvi (IS:ULKER), which lost 3.14% or 0.65 points to trade at 20.05 in late trade. Ipek Dogal Enerji (IS:IPEKE) declined 2.56% or 0.080 points to end at 3.040 and T.S.K.B. (IS:TSKB) shed 1.93% or 0.040 points to 2.030.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 262 to 144 and 11 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.50% or 5.90 to $1188.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 1.10% or 0.65 to hit $59.59 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.09 to trade at $65.62 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.34% to 2.6942, while EUR/TRY rose 0.04% to 3.0274.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 94.70.