The surge in Italian government bond yields in recent months has brought back to the forefront the vulnerability of the banking sector to falls in bond prices. Given our view that Italian bond yields will continue to trend higher over the coming years and the comparatively large weighting of the financial sector with still-sizeable holdings of BTPs, we expect the MSCI Italy index to fall further and underperform MSCI’s benchmark equity indices elsewhere in Europe and the US.
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