Turkey's Currency Dips Again

Turkey's central bank failed to halt the slide of the country's lira currency on Monday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of purposely trying to damage his country's economy. "We are together in NATO and then you seek to stab your strategic partner in the back. Can such a thing be accepted?" Erdogan said in the capital, Ankara. The Turkish lira has plunged 40 percent this year, dropping 16 percent Friday and tumbling another seven...

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