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Erdogan talks, markets tumble

Turkish President Erdogan’s decisions this week to exclude investor-friendly members from his new cabinet and renew his calls for lower interest rates have rattled local financial markets and, ironically, strengthened the case for further rate hikes. Meanwhile, above-target inflation data out of Central and Eastern Europe support our view that monetary policy will be tightened by more than the markets expect over the coming years.

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