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Renewed Risk of Capital Flight

TURKEY

The progressive tightening of monetary policy since last summer has been instrumental in stabilising the lira and stemming the tide of capital flight. As the chart below shows, both the CBRTs measure of foreign investment in Turkish stocks, and our own estimate of foreign flows to equities using ETF data as a proxy, indicate that capital flows were starting to turn the corner before Saturday's announcement that the CBRT governor has been replaced.


Source: MNI, Bloomberg, CBRT

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