Turkey - Factors to Watch on March 23
ANKARA, March 23 (Reuters) - Here are news, reports and events that may affect Turkish financial markets on Thursday.
The lira stood at 3.6120 against the U.S. dollar at 0608 GMT, from 3.6173 at Wednesday's close.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year bond was at 10.86 percent in spot trade on Wednesday.
The main BIST share index closed at 89,809.09 points on Wednesday.
GLOBAL MARKETS
Asian stocks, taking some cues from a steady Wall Street, edged up on Thursday while the path for the dollar, which crawled up from a four-month low, remained clouded by concerns about the prospects for U.S. President Donald Trump's pro-growth agenda.
LONDON ATTACK
Five people were killed and about 40 injured in London on Wednesday after a car ploughed into pedestrians and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman close to Britain's parliament.
TENSIONS WITH EUROPE
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude towards Turkey, his latest salvo in a row over campaigning by Turkish politicians in Europe.
The Turkish foreign ministry summoned the Norwegian ambassador to Ankara after Norway granted refuge to four Turkish asylum seekers accused by Turkey of being involved in a July coup attempt, the spokesman for the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
ATTACK ON SOLDIERS
Turkey fired into Kurdish-controlled Syria on Wednesday after saying one of its soldiers was killed by a sniper from across the border, risking deeper conflict with a Kurdish militia backed by the United States and building ties to Russia.
One Turkish soldier was killed and four were wounded in an armed attack by Kurdish militants in Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari, the Turkish military said on Thursday.
RUSSIAN WHEAT
Ankara's action against Russian wheat, maize and sunflower oil suppliers is hindering restoration of ties between the two countries, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek by phone on Wednesday.
PASSENGER ELECTRONICS
The United States and Britain on Tuesday imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices on planes coming from certain airports in Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa in response to unspecified security threats. Flag-carrier Turkish Airlines was one of the airlines affected by the measures of both countries.
ERDOGAN
Erdogan will speak at an event hosting members of the Balkans Federation in Ankara at 1300 (1000 GMT). He will then meet with the head of the MIT intelligence agency at 1500 (1200 GMT) and later attend a joint interview with broadcasters Kanal D and CNN Turk at 1930 (1630 GMT).
YILDIRIM
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will attend an event in Elazig (0700 GMT) before speaking at two referendum rallies in Tunceli (1000 GMT) and Batman (1300 GMT).
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE
Turkey's consumer confidence for March is due to be released at 0700 GMT.
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Istanbul National-100 stock index, interbank lira trading, lira bond trading (Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Nick Tattersall)
