ECB Rate Rises Expose Fears for Italy as Eurozone’s Weakest Link

3 January 2023

Italy is the eurozone country most susceptible to a debt crisis as the European Central Bank raises interest rates and buys fewer bonds in the coming months, economists say. Nine out of 10 economists in a Financial Times poll identified Italy as the eurozone country “most at risk of an uncorrelated sell-off in its government bond markets”. Italy’s rightwing coalition government…

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