ANKARA

The Turkish benchmark stock index opened Thursday at 10,518.20 points, rising 0.30 or 31.50 points up from the previous close.

On Wednesday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index plunged 1.81% to 10,680.50 points with a daily transaction volume of 82.1 billion liras ($2.50 billion).

The US dollar/Turkish lira parity was 32.8775 as of 10.01a.m. (0701GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 35.2673, and the GBP/TRY rate was 41.5628.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,311.45, and the barrel price of Brent oil was around $84.29.