Residents waiting at a bus stop under a large Turkish flag in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 30, 2023.
Turkey's central bank jacked up the country's key interest rate Thursday, almost doubling it from 8.5% to 15% as the new economic administration of recently re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan embarked on a dramatic monetary policy U-turn.
The bank said that there will be further gradual monetary tightening until the inflation picture in the country improves.
The whopping 650-basis-point rate rise is the country's first since March 2021, but was below analyst expectations of a 1,150-basis-point hike to 20%.
Not enough," Timothy Ash, emerging markets strategist at BlueBay Asset Management, wrote in an note via email.
Persons:
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hafize Gaye Erkan, Timothy Ash, —
Organizations:
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