TUR Stock Recent News

Turkey's surprise interest rate hike has garnered attention and optimism from investors. Investors now can play the pure-play Turkey ETF, which carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).

Wall Street delivered a decent-to-upbeat performance last week.

Now that the election is done and dusted, President Erdogan has hit the economic reset button. Having signaled a rate hike path and outlined measures to balance the country's twin deficits, the Turkish investment case appears significantly de-risked. With TUR valuations still heavily discounted relative to its underlying earnings growth, the ETF looks interesting here.

Last week was marked by a few market-moving events including the signing of debt-ceiling debt, upbeat jobs data and weak manufacturing data.

Unorthodox monetary policies led to an unsustainable currency equilibrium in favor of the Lira and created a de facto dual exchange rate. Elections will likely be the end of the enforced currency rate and plummet the Lira.

While the February indicators show earthquake-related weakness in economic activity, recent data releases signal a rapid recovery. The drop in annual inflation continued in April, as widely expected, due to strong base effects.

An Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) is a basket of stocks that usually tracks a specific index, industry or theme. ETFs can act as a great way to ensure diversification, without needing to buy and sell individual stocks.

The iShares MSCI Turkey ETF has outperformed the rest of the emerging market universe over the last year. While the earthquakes this year will weigh on growth, the diversified nature of the portfolio earnings means any structural impact is likely limited.

In a sea of red across the global equity markets in the last year, Turkey stocks have shined. I see more upside ahead given the country ETF's low valuation, favorable seasonal trends, and bullish chart.

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