Italy: Testing the limits – Nordea Markets
|Analysts at Nordea Markets note that the Italian administration is yet to soften up on the 2019 budget, which will be delivered to Brussels by Monday 15 October.
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“All signals suggest that the 2019 budget proposal will be kept exactly as it is now. A 2.4% deficit for 2019, and then the Italian administration can soften the stance after the European parliamentary election in the spring. Matteo Salvini said this week “we won’t take even a cent of a euro off the measures we have prepared for the Italians” – the words of a politician who is campaigning.”
“The news flow has not worsened this week, why the EUR has regained its footing despite slightly wider Ital-German spreads. We took a deep look at the Italian debt sustainability this week, concluding that the Italians have some buffer left, but not a lot.”
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