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‘It’s A Race To The Bottom’: Ruble, Lira Crushed As Russia, Turkey Face Burgeoning Currency Crises

By Kurt Osterberg · On April 11, 2018

Soft equities, lower bond yields, TRY and RUB in an FX race to the bottom.

That’s how SocGen’s Kit Juckes described Wednesday so far and it underscores the idea that the ruble and lira are, like Ron Burgundy, “kind of a big deal.”

I talked at length about this over at Dealbreaker on Tuesday in “This Is The Stuff Crises Are Made Of” and one of the points I made in that post was as follows:

Speaking of Syria, you’re reminded that Trump, Putin and Erdogan all have a stake in the outcome there. American, Russian and Turkish boots are on the ground and Washington, Moscow, and Ankara are all keen to advance their own interests, efforts which are complicated immeasurably by the fact that Putin and Erdogan both have deep ties to the Mueller probe (Erdogan for his connections to Flynn and Putin for obvious reasons).

Don’t let all of those links be lost on you. Indeed it was just yesterday when Erdogan made it clear that he has no intention of letting Russia dictate the future of Afrin (in Syria) where the Turkish military launched an offensive recently to counter the YPG (part of Erdogan’s never ending battle against the YPG who he equates with the PKK, his mortal enemy).

The lira fell to a fresh record low on Wednesday and as Bloomberg’s Benjamin Dow notes, the Syria turmoil only compounds the problems. “Turkey’s lira set (yet another) record low against the dollar — never mind the small beat in March current-account data — and it won’t get much better in the near term, as potential U.S. strikes against Syria threaten to compound the central bank’s inability to raise rates and fight still-elevated inflation,” Dow writes, before reminding you that although the lira gained some 9% after Trump hit Assad with missiles last year, the circumstances were different.

“Oil was falling, and a four-month drop drove CPI under 10%,” Dow recalls, adding that “the lira may not be so lucky this time as just about all of those factors are missing — more hawks like Pompeo and Bolton are closer to the U.S. president’s ear on military force, crude is being supported by more uncertainty, and inflation is looking stubbornly stuck in double digits.”

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