Turkey: CBRT likely to keep rates on hold – TDS
|In line with the almost unanimous consensus, analysts at TD Securities are expecting the CBRT to keep its benchmark rate, the 1-week repo rate, on hold at today's MPC meeting.
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“The MPC will be reasonably happy with developments on the inflation front since the last meeting in April. In May headline CPI inflation continued the downtrend, falling to 18.7% y/y from 19.5% in May, and core inflation fell to 15.8% y/y from 16.3%.”
“Furthermore, USDTRY is slightly lower and Brent crude is down about 16% in $ terms. Added to all this, the global environment has shifted in a distinctly more dovish direction. However, with political risks to the lira abounding right now (e.g. Istanbul election rerun and the S-400 issue), the CBRT will want to adopt a cautious stance and, in any event, will want to prepare the markets more for possible rate cuts. So the CBRT might want to test the waters today with a bit more dovish language, but that is as far as they will go.”
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