Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Wholesale & Retail Trade, Transport and Metal Products & Machinery sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 added 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Koza Altin (IS:KOZAL), which rose 12.94% or 1.75 points to trade at 15.27 at the close. Ihlas Holding (IS:IHLAS) added 9.52% or 0.020 points to end at 0.230 and Koza Madencilik (IS:KOZAA) was up 4.42% or 0.050 points to 1.180 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Besiktas Futbol Yat. (IS:BJKAS), which lost 7.91% or 0.33 points to trade at 3.84 in late trade. Net Turizm (IS:NTTUR) declined 4.91% or 0.080 points to end at 1.550 and Alarko Gmyo (IS:ALGYO) shed 3.12% or 1.04 points to 32.34.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 170 to 156 and 79 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.55% or 6.95 to $1281.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 1.09% or 0.52 to hit $48.24 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.84% or 0.41 to trade at $49.38 a barrel.
USD/TRY was down 0.46% to 2.9615, while EUR/TRY fell 0.33% to 3.3593.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.18% at 94.36.