Turkey’s Borsa Istanbul issued a market-wide circuit breaker after the benchmark index dropped 5 percent within minutes of opening on Wednesday, continuing losses after a devastating earthquake in the south of the country on Monday.
The benchmark BIST-100 index opened down 0.52 percent and slid rapidly to be 5 percent lower, issuing the market-wide circuit breaker at 0712 GMT. Pre-market trading started at 0655 GMT.The death toll of Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey rose to 6,234 by Wednesday morning, the Disaster Management Authority said.