Comments reported from Turkish finance minister Albayrak are here from earlier:
More on this here at Reuters :
And, early posts here:
- (Very) early Asia FX rate indications - eyes on a plunging TRY
- Turkish lira smashed again as trading for the new week begins
- Why the Turkish lira is imploding
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Here is the first pic
Of something being flushed down a toilet:
More seriously … that is a chart of the Turkish lira dropping in price against the USD.
Its usually presented opposite:
For the noobs (we all were once), if you find yourself reading headlines saying the Turkish lira is falling and then you look at that second chart (the more common way of representing the relationship between the US dollar and the Turkish lira) and ask yourself (or someone else) 'If its dropping why is the chart going up?' then its time to do a little more learning and a little less trading. Like I said, we were all noobs once, so no disrespect intended.