
While the highest monthly real return was realized in government securities in September, the highest gain on an annual basis was gold bullion.
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TurkStat calculates the real return rates of financial investment instruments on a monthly and annual basis by discounting them with CPI and D-PPI.
Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Real Return Rates of Financial Investment Instruments for September have been announced. The highest monthly real return was realized in Government Domestic Debt Securities (GDDS) with a rate of 1.40 percent when reduced by the consumer price index (CPI).
The highest monthly real return was realized in GDDS with the rates of 1.18 percent when reduced by the domestic producer price index (D-PPI) and 1.40 percent when reduced by the consumer price index (CPI).
HOW MUCH WAS THE DEPOSIT INTEREST RETURN?
When reduced with D-PPI; Among investment instruments, deposit interest (gross) provides a real return to its investors of 0.96 percent; Investors lost 0.44 percent of the US Dollar, 1.12 percent of the Euro, 2.24 percent of gold bullion and 6.01 percent of the BIST 100 index.
When reduced by CPI, deposit interest (gross) provides a real return to its investors of 1.19 percent; Investors lost 0.22 percent of the US Dollar, 0.89 percent of the Euro, 2.02 percent of gold bullion and 5.79 percent of the BIST 100 index.
Deposit interest (gross), in quarterly evaluation; It became the investment instrument that provided the highest real return to its investors, at 3.42 percent when reduced by D-PPI and 4.11 percent when reduced by CPI. In the same period, the BIST 100 index became the investment instrument that made the investors lose the most, at 9.90 percent when reduced by D-PPI and 9.29 percent when reduced by CPI.
Deposit interest (gross) based on six-month evaluation; While it is the investment instrument that provides the highest real return to its investors, at 1.60 percent when reduced by D-PPI and 3.15 percent when reduced by CPI; In the same period, gold bullion became the investment instrument that made the investors lose the most, at 16.99 percent when reduced by D-PPI and 15.73 percent when reduced by CPI.
HIGHEST REAL RETURN IS UNDER BULLION
When financial investment instruments are evaluated annually, gold bullion; It became the investment instrument that provided the highest real return to its investors, at 7.25 percent when reduced by D-PPI and 5.30 percent when reduced by CPI.
In the annual evaluation, when reduced by D-PPI; While GDS, one of the investment instruments, provides real returns to its investors at the rate of 5.85 percent and deposit interest (gross) at 2.17 percent; BIST 100 index made investors lose 2.80 percent, US Dollar 7.58 percent and Euro 9.33 percent.
When discounted with CPI, GDDS provides real returns to its investors at 3.93 percent and deposit interest (gross) at 0.32 percent; Investors in the BIST 100 index lost 4.56 percent, the US Dollar 9.26 percent and the Euro 10.97 percent.

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