The Turkish lira rose against the US dollar, rebounding after Friday’s huge slump, today after Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned investors speculating against the currency that they will be punished. The bounce was limited, though, and currently the lira is trimming its gains.
Turkey’s Banking and Regulation Supervision Agency said over the weekend that they will be probing JPMorgan for advising to short the lira after the complaints that the guidance was “misleading and manipulative”. Erdogan said, addressing the financial sector:
If you get involved in provocative acts, saying âforeign currencies will strengthen, this will happen, that will happenâ, you will pay a very heavy priceâ.â.â.âThe BRSA has taken some steps. I will make you pay a very heavy price.
The lira slumped heavily on Friday due to fears of a new global recession caused by poor macroeconomic data in the eurozone, Germany in particular.
USD/TRY fell from 5.7438 to 5.6879 as of 12:02 GMT today, touching the low of 5.5695 intraday.
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