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Turkey: what can we learn from past easing cycles?

Past experience suggests that the macroeconomic conditions are now in place for the Turkish MPC to start reversing last year’s monetary tightening. We expect the one-week repo rate to be cut by 50bp at Wednesday’s meeting. But the central bank’s failure to tackle the country’s inflation problem means that inflation and interest rates are ultimately likely to remain higher than they were in early 2018.

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