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CBRT: further easing, but rates to go up by mid-2020

September’s plunge in inflation alongside the removal of US sanctions gave the Turkish central bank the green light to deliver another larger-than-expected interest rate cut today and the easing cycle has a little further to run in the coming months. But with inflation set to start rising again and the lira likely to come under pressure, we think that the central bank will have to reverse course by the middle of next year.

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