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Italy’s anti-austerity vote puts EU backstop in peril

By DAVID McHUGH AND VICTOR L. SIMPSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: February 28, 2013 at 2:50 a.m.

Italy’s muddled election results worried investors, raising unsettling questions about the availability of the financial safety net that has kept Europe from catastrophe for the past six months, bank officials and economists say.

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