LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey's investment-grade credit rating is hanging by a thread after last week's attempted coup and any further deterioration would force some conservative investors to dump billions of dollars worth of Turkish assets.
Brazil and Russia showed what the loss of investment-grade status can do last year: when they were cut to speculative or "junk" grade, their bonds, stock markets and currencies plunged.
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