Turkish stocks up at opening

By Tuba Sahin</p> <p> </p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index was up 0.64% or 626.34 points to open at 98,963.19 points on Friday.</p> <p> </p> <p>On Thursday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index was up 4.13% and closed the day at 98,336.85 points with a daily trading volume of 8.1 billion Turkish liras ($1.4 billion).</p> <p> </p> <p>The U.S. dollar/Turkish lira exchange rate stood at 5.6010 as of 9.30 a.m. local time (0630GMT) Friday, compared to 5.5970 at the previous close.</p> <p> </p> <p>The euro/Turkish lira exchange rate was 6.2970, versus 6.2890 at Thursday's close, and one British pound was exchanged for 7.3620 Turkish liras, compared to 7.3630 on Thursday.</p> <p> </p> <p>One barrel of Brent oil was sold for $69.10 as of 10 a.m. local time (0700GMT) on Friday.

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