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Having borrowed a record $2.5 billion in U.S. currency, Turkey is now aiming to raise funds in yen as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government takes advantage of resurgent demand for its debt.
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Turkey’s central bank unexpectedly cut the maximum interest rate at which it lends to banks, saying it was taking into account monetary easing in other economies. Bond yields fell to a four-month low.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party has increased its support by more than 3 percentage points to 53 percent since the elections in June, Sabah reported, citing a survey by Sonar Arastirma.
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For two neighbors who don’t trust each other and for centuries were engaged in fierce strategic and religious competition, it is remarkable that Sunni Turkey and Shiite Iran haven’t gone to war over their border since 1639. As Turkish leaders walk a diplomatic tightrope over U.S.-led efforts to pressure Iran into abandoning a suspected nuclear-weapons program, their overriding priority is to keep it that way.
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The rebound in the world’s worst- performing currency is diminishing the likelihood that Turkey’s central bank will raise interest rates to stem the highest inflation in 19 major emerging markets, trading in the swaps market shows.
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U.S. filmmakers won improved access to China’s $2.1 billion box-office market in an agreement that resolves a five-year dispute between the two countries at the World Trade Organization.
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Turkish central bank Governor Erdem Basci is failing to win the confidence of foreign investors following a rout in credit markets last year even as his interest rate cuts restore faith the economy will keep growing.
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China’s Vice President Xi Jinping, the presumed next leader of the world’s most populous nation, takes in a Los Angeles Lakers game today after a tour yesterday of the city’s port.
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The lira’s 7 percent rally this year that helped Turkish bonds outperform all emerging-market debt may be approaching an end, supporting analysts’ forecasts that a steadier exchange rate will keep the economy resilient.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the divided island of Cyprus tomorrow in a trip that will thrust him directly into a dispute over Mediterranean gas drilling rights.
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