Italy passes debt test

Italy's borrowing costs fell at its latest auction of short-term government bonds.

That means Rome has passed the first debt test since technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti said he would leave office early.

The treasury sold 6.5 billion euros one-year bills as planned and paid a yield of 1.46 percent, down from 1.76 percent one month ago.

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