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Turkey begins fightback after ‘mini crisis’

By Vincent Boland in Turkey

Published: August 9 2006 17:16 | Last updated: August 9 2006 17:16

Turkey’s army of local investors was given a taste of old times earlier this month, after the consumer finance division of Koc Holding, the country’s largest conglomerate, offered for sale the first corporate bond issue in nearly a decade.

The TL100m ($69m) issue, which will pay a coupon of about two percentage points more than the central bank’s overnight interest rate, will break no records.

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