Rate Cut in Turkey
September 12, 2019
Policymakers at the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey slashed the one-week repo rate by a greater-than-expected 325 basis points in follow-up to a 425-basis point cut in July from a peak of 24.0% that had prevailed since a 625-basis point increase in September of 2018. The rate now becomes 16.5%, which the monetary policy committee considers cautiously tight. Officials took into consideration the facts that policy stimulus is occurring at other central banks and a downward but unspecified revision of the future disinflation path assumed in July’s Inflation Report. Actual inflation, core inflation, and price expectations are moderating, and domestic demand is growing slowly.
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