Publication Date:
Mon, 2011-11-07 17:05
Two respected journalists close to the center-right leader separately said they believed Berlusconi was about to step down.
“That Silvio Berlusconi is about to step down is now clear to everybody, it’s a matter of hours, some say minutes,” Giuliano Ferrara, the respected editor of the Il Foglio daily and a confidante of Berlusconi, said in a video posted on the newspaper’s website.
Another journalist for center-right daily Libero, Franco Bechis, also said on Twitter that Berlusconi was about to resign.
The FTSE MIB index was up 2.6 percent, after earlier shedding more than 2 percent, with traders citing the resignation talk for the turnaround.
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