Economics

Turkey Doubles Down on Lira-Deposit Plan Even as Currency Slides

  • Central Bank sticks to 5% medium-term inflation goal
  • Policy blueprint jettisons last year’s tight money pledge
Photographer: Nicole Tung/Bloomberg
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Turkey’s central bank said it would prioritize measures aimed at encouraging savers to use lira deposits in 2022 even as the currency resumed a slide that’s seen it lose nearly 40% of its value this year.