Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Financials and Metal Products & Machinery sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 rose 3.10% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi TAO (IS:VAKBN), which rose 7.03% or 0.390 points to trade at 5.940 at the close. Turkiye Is Bankasi AS C (IS:ISCTR) added 7.01% or 0.460 points to end at 7.020 and Vestel (IS:VESTL) was up 6.74% or 0.460 points to 7.280 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kordsa Global (IS:KORDS), which lost 1.61% or 0.13 points to trade at 7.92 in late trade. Nurol Gmyo (IS:NUGYO) declined 0.67% or 0.030 points to end at 4.450 and Trabzonspor Sportif (IS:TSPOR) shed 0.38% or 0.010 points to 2.640.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 270 to 74 and 63 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.06% or 0.80 to $1256.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.30% or 0.68 to hit $52.92 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.12% or 0.62 to trade at $55.86 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 0.29% to 3.7245, while EUR/TRY rose 0.02% to 3.9512.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 100.89.