ML-Implode News - Why Italy faces worst shock in Europe as ECB prepares to taper bond buys

Saddled with mountains of debt and a looming election, the southern European nation will likely struggle to find buyers for its government bonds when the European Central Bank stops snapping up Italian debt over the coming years, according to Christian Schulz, European economist at Citigroup. That means yields are set to rise, potentially strangling the country's nascent recovery.
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Italy has particularly benefited from the ECB's quantitative easing program that began in 2015, as it's been one of the biggest bond issuers in the currency union. The central bank has purchased 300 billion euros ($352.9 billion) of Italian bonds under the program, which is more than three times the net bond issuance for the country during that period, according to Schulz. That means the ECB has not only bought pretty much all new bonds issued in Italy since 2015, but also existing bonds from other investors.

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Why Italy faces worst shock in Europe as ECB prepares to taper bond buys