ATHENS/ROME (Reuters) - Italy overtook Greece as the prime threat to the stability of the euro zone on Monday as governments sought to placate frantic bond markets and halt accelerating financial contagion.
Italian government bond yields rose to their highest since 1997 -- approaching levels regarded as unsustainable -- as political turmoil in Rome threatened to drag the euro zone's third largest economy deeper into the region's debt crisis.
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