UPDATE – Turkey's Borsa Istanbul looking up at close

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By Cansu Dikme

ANKARA (AA) – Turkey's benchmark stock index ended Monday up 0.22% to close at 1,086.20 points.

After starting at 1,085.52 points on Monday, Borsa Istanbul's BIST 100 index rose 2.37 points from 1,083.83 points at Friday's close.

On Monday, the BIST 100 hovered between 1,077.29 and 1,090.16 points — 37 stocks on the index rose, 54 fell, and nine were flat compared to the previous close.

Closing the day with a market value of some 796.8 billion Turkish liras ($108.5 billion), the benchmark index posted a daily trading volume of 13.6 billion Turkish liras ($1.9 billion).

Shares of state lender Garanti BBVA, defense electronics firm Aselsan, and iron and steel producer Karabuk Kardemir saw the highest trading volumes.

Stocks of petrochemical company Petkim posted the best performance, rising 6.37%, while shares of Deva, a pharmaceutical company, suffered the most, losing 7.85%.

One ounce of gold sold for $1,959.30 by market close, up from $1,946.00, according to data from Borsa Istanbul's Precious Metals and Diamond Markets.

The price of Brent oil was $45.17 per barrel as of 6 p.m. local time (1500GMT) on Monday, with a day range from $44.52 to $45.22.