ANKARA

Türkiye's benchmark stock index opened Monday at 9,419.42 points, increasing 0.32% or 29.80 points from the previous close.

On Friday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index lost 0.33% to 9,389.62 points, with a daily transaction volume of 85.4 billion liras ($2.48 billion).

The USD/TRY exchange rate was 34.4687 as of 09.54 a.m. (0654GMT), the EUR/TRY rate stood at 36.3416, and the GBP/TRY traded at 43.5622.

The price of one ounce of gold was $2,591.05 and the price of Brent crude oil was around $71.34 per barrel.