(Bloomberg) -- Turkey has replaced Argentina as the year’s worst performer in local-currency bonds and the carry trade following the lira’s plunge to a record.
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Losses for both nations far exceed the 4.7 percent average decline in emerging market local-currency debt in 2018. Investors holding lira-denominated bonds have lost 38 percent in dollar terms as the securities plunged 8 percent in just one week, while Argentina’s losses stabilized at 36 percent, according to Bloomberg Barclays indexes.
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Investors who borrowed dollars to buy Turkey’s lira lost 22 percent, versus 20 percent for Argentina’s peso, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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