Sports cars also earned both starting and prize money for the factory, and there seemed to be a constant queue of sports racer customers waving dollars, lira, francs, pounds and pesos standing outside the factory gate.
Goldman Sachs is forecasting a dollar-lira rate of 2.2, representing a 15 percent mini-devaluation from the current level of 1.95.
Earlier this week, the Turkish central bank increased interest rates in a bid to stop the fall of the lira, which is approaching the psychologically crucial hurdle of a dollar-lira rate of 2.00.
Ms. Friedlander, who ordered several hundred dollars in lire before going on her honeymoon in Italy in May, said she did not consider it too much to carry.
Even better (for me), Turkey was going through summertime economic woes that strengthened the dollar to 1.55 lira.
His spokesman and senior adviser, Kevin Kellems, gave him what he had, about seventeen dollars in Turkish lira.
In these neighborhoods, real estate prices are often given in several currencies — for instance euros, British pounds, United States dollars and Turkish lira.
The euro ended yesterday at 89.71 cents, just a bit above its record low, making the dollar worth 2,158 lire, 185.45 pesetas, 223.45 escudos, 2.18 marks, 7.31 francs and 2.46 guilders.
We 'vote with our dollars' (euros, pounds, lira, yen, yuan, pesos, etc).
Most currencies fell against the dollar, but the Turkish lira and some Latin currencies managed small rises.In this section CLONE TEST: TUBERCULOSIS FINANCIAL MARKETS ECONOMY Reprints.
One dollar recently fetched 3.73 lira.
