08.05.2025 12:50
The Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced the real return rates of financial investment instruments for the month of April. Gold bullion emerged as the investment instrument with the highest real return when adjusted for the Producer Price Index (Yİ-ÜFE) and the Consumer Price Index (TÜFE). Other investment instruments, on the other hand, experienced losses.
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According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), in April, the highest real return on financial investment instruments was in gold bullion. TÜİK announced the real return rates of financial investment instruments for April. Accordingly, the highest monthly real return was in gold bullion. When adjusted for the domestic producer price index (YI-ÜFE), the monthly highest real return was 8.80%, and when adjusted for the consumer price index (CPI), it was 8.54%, both realized in gold bullion. When adjusted for YI-ÜFE; among investment instruments, the Euro provided a real return of 4.07% and the deposit interest (gross) provided a return of 0.44%; while the US Dollar lost 0.03%, Government Domestic Debt Securities (DİBS) lost 7.39%, and the BIST 100 index lost 9.93% for investors.
CURRENCY AND STOCK MARKET LAGGED BEHIND GOLD
When adjusted for CPI; the Euro provided a real return of 3.83% and the deposit interest (gross) provided a return of 0.20%; while the US Dollar lost 0.26%, DİBS lost 7.60%, and the BIST 100 index lost 10.14% for investors. In the three-month evaluation, gold bullion was the investment instrument that provided the highest real return, with 20.83% when adjusted for YI-ÜFE and 19.69% when adjusted for CPI. During the same period, the BIST 100 index was the investment instrument that caused the most loss for investors, with 12.26% when adjusted for YI-ÜFE and 13.09% when adjusted for CPI. According to the six-month evaluation, gold bullion provided the highest real return for investors, with 18.15% when adjusted for YI-ÜFE and 12.36% when adjusted for CPI; during the same period, the BIST 100 index caused losses of 5.90% when adjusted for YI-ÜFE and 10.51% when adjusted for CPI.
HIGHEST REAL RETURN IN ANNUAL EVALUATION WAS IN GOLD BULLION
When financial investment instruments were evaluated annually, gold bullion was the investment instrument that provided the highest real return, with 31.17% when adjusted for YI-ÜFE and 16.55% when adjusted for CPI. In the annual evaluation, when adjusted for YI-ÜFE; among investment instruments, the deposit interest (gross) provided a real return of 16.26% and the Euro provided a return of 0.90%; while DİBS lost 0.91%, the US Dollar lost 3.80%, and the BIST 100 index lost 20.29% for investors. When adjusted for CPI, the deposit interest (gross) provided a real return of 3.31%; while the Euro lost 10.34%, DİBS lost 11.95%, the US Dollar lost 14.51%, and the BIST 100 index lost 29.17% for investors.
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