Despite comments from Turkish President Erdogan railing against prospects for a rate hike, Turkey’s central bank, CBRT hiked the repo rate to 24%, a much bigger than expected 625bp increase. This may not be sufficient to turn things round sustainably but will at least prevent a return of the extreme volatility seen over past weeks. The decision saw USDTRY drop by about 6% before reversing some of the move. Undoubtedly the decision will provide support to EM assets globally including in Asia today.
Elsewhere the European Central Bank (ECB) delivered few punches by leaving policy unchanged and reaffirming that its quantitative easing will reduce to EUR 15bn per month (from EUR 30bn) from October while anticipating an end after December 2018. The ECB also downgraded its growth outlook but kept the risks broadly balanced. The outcome will likely to help put a floor under the EUR. Unsurprisingly the Bank of England (BoE) left its policy on hold voting unanimously to do so, leaving little inspiration to GBP.
President Trump poured cold water on US-China trade talks by denying a Wall Street Journal article that he faces rising political pressure to agree a deal with China. Trump tweeted, “They are under pressure to make a deal with us. If we meet, we meet?” . Meanwhile US CPI missed expectations at 0.2% m/m, 2.7% y/y in August, an outcome consistent with gradual rate hikes ahead. The data will also help to undermine the USD in the short term.
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