Gold (ingots) brought the highest monthly real profit with a rate of 6.75 percent on the domestic producer price index (D-PPI) and a rate of 6.56 percent on the consumer price index (CPI), according to the Turkish Statistical institute (TurkStat), which announced the rates of real profits yielded by financial investment for February.

According to the D-PPI, monthly real-profit rates on the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange, government domestic debt instruments (GDDI) deposit interest and the euro were 3 percent, 1.98 percent, 0.61 percent and 0.01 percent, respectively. However, investors in dollars lost 2.07 percent. According to the CPI, the monthly real profit rate of investors in the Borsa Istanbul, GDDI and deposit interest were 2.81 percent, 1.80 percent and 0.43 percent, respectively, while investors in dollars and euros lost 2.25 percent and 0.17 percent, respectively.

Gold (ingots) made the highest real profit with a rate of 12.52 percent, according to the D-PPI, and a rate of 10.31 percent, according to the CPI, quarterly. In the same period, investors in the Borsa Istanbul lost 9.28 percent, according to the D-PPI, and 11.06 percent, according to the CPI.

The annual real profit rates of the dollar were 14.44 percent and 9.91 percent, according to the D-PPI and CPI, respectively; however, in the same period, investors in the Borsa Istanbul marked the highest loss with rates of 18.44 percent and 21.67 percent, according to the D-PPI and the CPI, respectively.