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Holding up the heavens

2 June 2016 By Neil Unmack

Buying shares in just two Italian banks may use up half of the money the Atlante fund was given to clean up the financial system. Its remaining 1.7 bln euros pales next to Italy’s 300-plus bln euros of bad debt. Making a dent in that calls for leverage and luck.

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