# italian-economy - Friday 26 April, 2013
The 76-year-old former premier is set to join a new grand coalition – and says he’s hoping to be made the Minister for Finance.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Italy allows expatriates abroad to vote in parliamentary elections – with Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement leading here.
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Silvio Berlusconi’s strength in key regions means Pier Luigi Bersani cannot claim power, with another election now due.
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# italian-economy - Monday 25 February, 2013
Pier Luigi Bersani’s coalition wins the house, but Silvio Berlusconi takes enough Senate support to mean no clear winner.
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# italian-economy - Sunday 24 February, 2013
Who’s running? What’s at stake? How are they picked? And is Silvio Berlusconi really in line for a fourth term in office?
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# italian-economy - Monday 18 June, 2012
The costs had fallen after Greece’s election, but are back up this morning as the fear of contagion remains…
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 12 June, 2012
If you were lending cash to the Spanish government for 10 years, you’d get an annual interest rate of 6.76 per cent.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 15 May, 2012
The banks include the country’s two largest banks, with one third of the market – while 10 banks are now ‘junk’.
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# italian-economy - Wednesday 18 April, 2012
Mario Monti’s government says the economy will shrink three times more than expected, and that they’ll need more time.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 21 February, 2012
Last week marked the first time in six months that the European Central Bank didn’t intervene in the sovereign bond markets.
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# italian-economy - Friday 17 February, 2012
Mario Monti’s moves to end a waiver on property taxes comes just as the Holy See shows concern at its financial state.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 14 February, 2012
What downgrade? Italy flogs billions in 12-year bonds with interest rates falling dramatically on a similar bond last month.
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# italian-economy - Thursday 22 December, 2011
The Italian senate follows the chamber of deputies in passing a motion of confidence in Mario Monti’s technocratic cabinet.
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# italian-economy - Thursday 15 December, 2011
Mario Monti wants to be totally sure that he retains the support of the Italian parliament as he presents yet more austerity.
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# italian-economy - Monday 5 December, 2011
Elsa Fornero breaks down in tears as she announces moves to cut the link between welfare payments and inflation.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 29 November, 2011
Italy faces its highest cost of borrowing ever, raising €3.5bn through the sale of three-year bonds at rates of 7.9 per cent.
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# italian-economy - Friday 25 November, 2011
Italy raises €10bn in two short-term auctions – but sees its interest rates go through the roof, and into unsustainable levels.
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# italian-economy - Monday 21 November, 2011
The pan-European ESCP business school says Ireland could get rid of €184bn in debts – by simply cancelling them out with others.
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# italian-economy - Friday 18 November, 2011
Silvio Berlusconi has reportedly said he will bring down Mario Monti’s independent government if he disapproves of its policies.
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# italian-economy - Thursday 17 November, 2011
The price of borrowing for Spain is approaching the 7 per cent barrier, after both Spain and France struggled with bond auctions.
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# italian-economy - Wednesday 16 November, 2011
The new Italian cabinet is made up mostly of independent technocrats, and will see Monti double up as PM and finance minister.
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Mario Monti completes two days of tense negotiations, and is set to present his new government to the president this morning.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 15 November, 2011
The markets seem nervous about Mario Monti’s attempts to form a government – while a Spanish bond auction also goes badly.
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# italian-economy - Wednesday 9 November, 2011
The price of borrowing for the Italian government is now at the same level which prompted bailouts for Ireland and Portugal.
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# italian-economy - Wednesday 5 October, 2011
The agency cuts its rating of Italy for the first time in two decades – as fears continue over over the viability of the Eurozone.
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# italian-economy - Monday 12 September, 2011
…and its input was virtually worthless, because prices today are pretty much exactly where they were seven days ago.
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# italian-economy - Saturday 10 September, 2011
Jürgen Stark is stepping down three years early – apparently in protest at ECB policies not favoured by his native Germany.
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# italian-economy - Wednesday 7 September, 2011
Angela Merkel welcomes the Constitutional Court’s decision – but says it does not mean the emergence of a closer fiscal union.
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Germany was not acting unconstitutionally in sanctioning a Greek bailout, the court says – though future bailouts need greater approval.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 6 September, 2011
Christine Lagarde says there’s a “crisis of confidence”. No kidding: markets are slipping while borrowing costs are back on the up.
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# italian-economy - Saturday 3 September, 2011
Silvio Berlusconi has been forced to drop some plans in a bid to win political support – but Jean-Claude Trichet isn’t too pleased.
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# italian-economy - Monday 29 August, 2011
The ECB’s purchase of Spanish and Italian bonds continues to wind down, with purchases down to €6.65bn last week.
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# italian-economy - Monday 22 August, 2011
The ECB spent €14.3bn buying Spanish and Italian bonds last week, down from €22bn the week before, as the crisis eased.
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# italian-economy - Friday 12 August, 2011
Italy, Spain, France and Belgium ban investors from betting on falls – but the main markets still slip on their opening.
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# italian-economy - Monday 8 August, 2011
The Dow Jones ends its day deep in the red, as the S&P loses 6.6 per cent and the NASDAQ sheds nearly 7 per cent of its value.
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5 stories, 5 minutes, 5 o’clock.
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The US bond market responds brilliantly to the S&P downgrade, but the world’s stock markets are the obvious victims.
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# italian-economy - Thursday 4 August, 2011
The President of the European Commission tells us what we already know, as he calls for “full backing” for struggling countries.
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# italian-economy - Tuesday 2 August, 2011
If it was borrowing today, Spain would pay 6.3 per cent interest for a 10-year loan – a level that can’t be sustained.
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# italian-economy - Wednesday 27 July, 2011
The new European Stability Mechanism will need will claw back a huge amount of the loans it’s already giving us.
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