Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Leasing & Factoring, Textile & Leather and Electricity sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 added 0.97%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Park Elek. Madencilik (IS:PRKME), which rose 19.59% or 0.380 points to trade at 2.320 at the close. Metro Holding (IS:METRO) added 7.14% or 0.060 points to end at 0.900 and Izmir Demir Celik (IS:IZMDC) was up 5.86% or 0.160 points to 2.890 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Koza Altin (IS:KOZAL), which lost 2.36% or 0.42 points to trade at 17.41 in late trade. Ipek Dogal Enerji (IS:IPEKE) declined 1.75% or 0.040 points to end at 2.240 and Logo Yazilim (IS:LOGO) shed 1.52% or 0.800 points to 51.750.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 249 to 94 and 65 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.24% or 3.05 to $1254.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.57% or 0.29 to hit $50.15 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.48% or 0.25 to trade at $51.78 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.14% to 3.0897, while EUR/TRY fell 0.52% to 3.3965.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.44% at 97.96.