Support for Turkish lira cannot be sustained

The Turkish authorities have kept a tight grip on the lira in recent weeks but we don’t think that this can continue for much longer and expect the currency to fall by 20% against the dollar by end-2020. The longer that policymakers intervene to prop up the lira, the greater the risk of a disorderly adjustment.

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