The Turkish lira gained value after the central bank announced an interest rate hike.Turkey's central bank on Thursday hiked its main interest rate by two percentage points to 17 percent and promised further monetary tightening to help tamp down soaring inflation. The decision means that Turkey's main rate has soared by 6.75 percentage points in just a month after two years in which it was held steady due to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's belief that higher rates cause inflation. That policy saw the Turkish lira lose roughly a third of its value against the dollar as the central bank burned through its reserves in an effort to prop up the currency. The accompanying rise in the annual infl
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