Stock investors stopped freaking out over interest rates. Now they’re eying
this risk.
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Investors appear to be doing a lot less hand-wringing over higher interest
rates lately, but plenty of market risks are still coming up on the horizon.
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Italy's benchmark stock index leapt 3.7 percent and the nation's borrowing costs plunged after the country's Senate passed a crucial austerity budget demanded by the European Union. Other European stock markets and the euro also pushed higher as investors became more confident that Italy would avoid a fiscal disaster.
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