The Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) announced that the financial investment instrument that provided the highest monthly real return in May was the BIST 100 index with the domestic producer price index (D-PPI) by 6.89 percent and the consumer price index (CPI) by 5.44 percent.
TURKSTAT announced the real rates of return on financial investment instruments for the period of May 2024. Accordingly; The highest monthly real return was realized in the BIST 100 index with 6.89 percent when discounted by D-PPI and 5.44 percent when discounted by CPI. While deposit interest (gross) and government domestic debt securities (GDDS) provided real returns of 1.19 percent and 0.38 percent, Euro, US Dollar and gold bullion lost 1.44 percent, 2.25 percent and 3.72 percent, respectively. When discounted by CPI, deposit interest (gross) lost 0.19 percent, GDDS 0.99 percent, Euro 2.79 percent, US Dollar 3.58 percent and gold bullion 5.03 percent.
IN 3 MONTHS GOLD BULLION EARNED THE MOST
Gold bullion was the investment instrument that provided the highest real return to its investors at the rates of 8.75 percent when discounted by D-PPI and 7.84 percent when discounted by CPI in the 3-month evaluation. In the same period, GDDS was the investment instrument that lost the most to its investors at the rates of 5.42 percent when discounted by D-PPI and 6.21 percent when discounted by CPI. According to the 6-month evaluation, the BIST 100 index was the investment instrument that provided the highest real return to its investors by 11.70 percent when discounted by D-PPI and 5.43 percent when discounted by CPI; In the same period, the US Dollar was the investment instrument that lost the most to its investors by 5.65 percent when discounted by D-PPI and 10.95 percent when discounted by CPI.
When financial investment instruments were evaluated annually, the BIST 100 index was the investment instrument that provided the highest real return to its investors at 44.44 percent when discounted by D-PPI and 29.81 percent when discounted by CPI. In the annual evaluation, when discounted by D-PPI, gold bullion, US Dollar and Euro provided a real return of 14.76 percent, 3.37 percent and 2.82 percent, respectively, while deposit interest (gross) and government bonds lost 26.08 percent and 46.01 percent, respectively. When discounted by CPI, gold bullion provided a real return of 3.14 percent to its investors, while the US dollar 7.10 percent, the euro 7.59 percent, deposit interest (gross) 33.57 percent and GDDS 51.48 percent.
