Major stock markets in Asia closed mixed on Friday, but they ended the week with gains due to their rally at the first half of this week.The Asia Dow, which includes blue-chip companies in the region, was up 11 points, or 0.3%, to 3,923 at 1000GMT. It …

Turkey’s benchmark stock index opened at 1,444.82 points on Thursday, up 0.02% or 0.36 points from the previous close.At Thursday’s close, Borsa Istanbul’s BIST 100 index was up 2.38% to 1,444.46 points, with a daily trading volume of 15.7 billion Turk…

Turkey’s current account balance posted a deficit of $1.127 billion in June, down $1.95 billion from the same month last year, the Turkish Central Bank announced on Friday.With June figures, the current account deficit continued to narrow for the fourt…

The highest electricity price rate for one megawatt-hour in Turkey’s day-ahead spot market for Saturday will be 600 Turkish liras at 20.00 (1700 GMT) and the lowest will be 360.34 liras at 06.00 local time (0300 GMT), according to official figures on F…

Both oil benchmarks fell on Friday, as the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) outlook for the remainder of this year was downgraded due to restrictions imposed due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and on revisions to historical data.Internation…

Making rapid gains over the past few days, the Taliban have now taken control of 17 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals, sources confirmed on Friday.Following days of heavy clashes, the insurgents captured Afghanistan’s second- and third-largest ci…

Turkey and Sudan on Friday set a target of $2 billion trade in the next five years, said Turkey’s vice president.“Our trade with Sudan reached $480 million in 2020,” Fuat Oktay said during a Turkey-Sudan round-table meeting in the capital Ankara.Mining…