at verisk maplecroft. if erdogan continues down this path of policy that he has embarked upon, do you think turkey will be defaulting on its debts any time soon? thank ou. its debts any time soon? thank yom yes. its debts any time soon? thank you. yes, well, its debts any time soon? thank you. yes, well, the its debts any time soon? thank you. yes, well, the turkish - you. yes, well, the turkish lira partly as a result of economic policies under the current turkish government has lost about 80% of its value over the past five years. and in the lead up to the election, one of the ways in which the central bank was holding it off was drawing on its foreign exchange and gold reserves. although that props up the lira it is not necessarily sustainable in the long term and if turkey is no longer able to finance imports or to service its external debt it could end up default. there are corrective actions the turkish government can take to try and hold off that risk but we have
the economy is coping with the cost of living crisis when we get first quarter gdp figures in just over an hour s time. it s expected to have continued growing by 0.2% in the first three months of the year. hardly booming, but a far cry from the record breaking recession that the bank of england was predicting six months ago. on thursday, the bank announced a major rethink of its forecasts, saying the uk will now avoid going into recession. but it warned that the battle to get soaring prices under control is taking much longer than expected. the bank also raised its main interest rate again by 0.25%, to 4.5%. that s the 12th rate rise in a row, and it puts the cost of borrowing here in the uk at a 15 year high. the bank is trying to take spending power out of the economy to stop prices rising so fast. inflation is currently running at over 10% a year. that s the highest rate in a0 years, and five times the bank s target of 2%. our economics editor faisal islam reports. red gr
ANKARA, TURKEY (AP) Turkey and Israel announced trade barriers on each other Tuesday as relations deteriorated further amid the war in Gaza. Turkey, a staunch critic of Israel’s military actions in the territory, announced that it was restricting exports of 54 types of products to the apartheid regime with immediate effect. They include aluminium, […]
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