Investing.com – Turkey equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Basic Metals, Leasing & Factoring and Electricity sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Istanbul, the BIST 100 added 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BIST 100 were Good-Year (IS:GOODY), which rose 20.00% or 18.85 points to trade at 113.10 at the close. Carrefoursa Carrefour Sabanci Ticaret Merkezi AS (IS:CRFSA) added 5.68% or 2.80 points to end at 52.10 and AK Enerji (IS:AKENR) was up 5.56% or 0.050 points to 0.950 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cimsa (IS:CIMSA), which lost 5.66% or 0.93 points to trade at 15.50 in late trade. Konya Cimento (IS:KONYA) declined 2.07% or 7.30 points to end at 345.00 and Aksa (IS:AKSA) shed 1.51% or 0.16 points to 10.46.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 263 to 87 and 59 ended unchanged on the Istanbul Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.72% or 8.90 to $1228.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.71% or 0.27 to hit $38.55 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.93% or 0.37 to trade at $40.22 a barrel.
USD/TRY was up 0.07% to 2.8395, while EUR/TRY rose 0.36% to 3.2169.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.30% at 94.88.