Fri Jun 3, 2011 12:50 GMT |
There are big question marks over the current policy advocated by the Turkish central bank, which despite stellar economic growth chose to cut interest rates to stem the flow of ‘hot money’. With consumer credit growing at over 40% y-o-y in late May, and inflation beginning to rear its head, we ask Chris Graham, Europe… [Read more]
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Tags: AKP, Balance of Payments, banking sector, Constitution, Current Account Deficit, election, hot money, inflation, interest rates, lira, monetary policy, Reserve Requirement, Turkey
Posted in: Currencies, Emerging Europe, General, Inflation/Deflation, Podcast
Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:32 GMT |
Political risk is a perennial concern for foreign investors in Turkey, and a frequent cause of volatility on the Istanbul markets. Yet despite threats of military coups, an on-again off-again EU accession process, deep social tensions between secularist and moderate Islamist institutions, and a protracted ethnic Kurdish insurgency, the Turkish economy and financial markets have… [Read more]
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Tags: AKP, Country Risk, coup, Ergenekon, EU Accession, financial markets, foreign policy, IMF, military, NATO, Political Risk, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
Posted in: Emerging Europe, Eurozone, General, Geopolitics, Middle East, Podcast, Political Risk, US