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Turkish Lira Falls to Record, Defying Efforts to Stem the Slide

(Bloomberg) -- Turkish regulators banned local banks from trading with Citigroup Inc., UBS Group AG and BNP Paribas after currency interventions and a stiff new raft of anti-manipulation rules failed to stem the Turkish lira’s slide to a record low.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has laid the blame for the lira’s decline on foreign speculators, and the tough new rules unveiled Thursday by the banking regulator run the risk of making the nation’s currency and swaps market even less liquid.The lira erased its losses after authorities banned trading the currency with three of the world’s biggest banks, saying they had failed to meet their lira liabilities.UBS declined to comment. A BNP representative was not immediately in a position to comment. Edwina Frawley-Gangahar, a spokeswoman for Citigroup in London, didn’t immediately comment.The regulations -- which coincided with a state news report about a possible lawsuit against unnamed London firms -- may further deter...

Equity markets in "full recovery mode;" India, Brazil, Korea, Taiwan top picks – Mark Mobius

"You would expect at a time like this, you have a bigger bear market, and that is why I’ve been cautious and kept a little powder dry, because there could be relapses in the market," said Mobius, founder of Mobius Capital Partners, which has $130 million assets under management. "But the way it looks now, we may be in full recovery mode," Mobius told the Reuters Global Markets Forum on Thursday, May 7, from Munich....