Investing.com – Turkey equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Food & Beverages, Textile & Leather and Wholesale & Retail Trade sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 fell 0.79%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Tekfen Holding (IS:TKFEN), which rose 16.57% or 1.10 points to trade at 7.74 at the close. Dogan Holding (IS:DOHOL) added 3.75% or 0.030 points to end at 0.830 and Otokar (IS:OTKAR) was up 2.85% or 2.90 points to 104.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tumosan Motor Ve Traktor (IS:TMSN), which lost 3.83% or 0.310 points to trade at 7.790 in late trade. Teknosa IC Ve Dis Ticaret (IS:TKNSA) declined 3.41% or 0.180 points to end at 5.100 and Metro Holding (IS:METRO) shed 3.13% or 0.020 points to 0.620.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 214 to 106 and 88 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.04% or 0.55 to $1342.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.55% or 0.26 to hit $47.67 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.83% or 0.41 to trade at $49.57 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.16% to 2.9459, while EUR/TRY rose 0.05% to 3.3318.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 94.49.