Turkey holds rate but softens hawkish policy stance
Turkey holds rate but softens hawkish policy stance Turkey's central bank maintained its key interest rate and "tight monetary policy stance," as widely expected, but dropped its earlier commitment of maintaining this tight stance for an extended period, signaling a slight softening of its hawkish tone. Instead of its previous pledge of keeping a tight policy stance "decisively" and for an extended period, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) today said it would use "decisively" all instruments in pursuit of price stability and the policy rate would be set abov...