Investing.com – Turkey equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Food & Beverages, Basic Metals and Information Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 declined 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Yazicilar Holding (IS:YAZIC), which rose 6.76% or 0.89 points to trade at 14.06 at the close. Tesco Kipa (IS:KIPA) added 4.00% or 0.060 points to end at 1.560 and Ege Endustri (IS:EGEEN) was up 3.92% or 8.40 points to 222.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ipek Dogal Enerji (IS:IPEKE), which lost 5.56% or 0.120 points to trade at 2.040 in late trade. Koza Madencilik (IS:KOZAA) declined 4.98% or 0.110 points to end at 2.100 and Karsan Otomotiv (IS:KARSN) shed 4.63% or 0.050 points to 1.030.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 216 to 115 and 77 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 0.46% or 5.15 to $1135.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.13% or 0.07 to hit $52.88 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $55.03 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.05% to 3.5130, while EUR/TRY rose 0.19% to 3.6746.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.13% at 102.94.