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Turkish stock exchange up at Thursday open

ANKARA: Trkiye’s benchmark stock index opened Thursday at 9,872.85 points, gaining 1.01% or 98.36 points from the previous close.

On Wednesday, the BIST 100 index rose 0.17% to 9,774.49 points, with a daily transaction volume of 63 billion liras ($1….

US initial jobless claims fall by 12,000

ISTANBUL: The number of Americans filing first-time unemployment claims fell by 12,000 last week to 219,000, according to Labor Department data released Thursday.

The figure was lower than estimates of 230,000, while the previous week’s reading was r…

Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices up 2.2% in August

The Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices rose by 2.2% between August 2023 and August 2024, and increased by 0.9% in the month between July 2024 and August 2024, with the largest increase noted in Services, according to data published by the Statistica…