Italian stocks up 2.79pc at open

MILAN : Italian stocks opened 2.79 percent higher at 15,073 points on Thursday, a day after crashing 6.65 percent amid f

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday said the government would adopt new austerity measures next week to cut the deficit to produce a balanced budget by 2013 in line with demands from the European Central Bank.

 

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