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Italy's PM Mario Monti says country won't seek bailout, Spain's Mariano Rajoy dodges question

Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti said his country will not seek a sovereign bailout, though Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy, whom he met with on Thursday, dodged the question altogether as financial markets dropped sharply.Both leaders said at a joint press conference in Madrid that they welcomed European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's commitment that "the euro currency was irreversible."Draghi said the bank would make a new effort to buy government bonds to drive down the high borrowing rates squeezing the continent's indebted governments.However, markets were disappointed that, while Draghi had committed the ECB to action, the plan was short on detail.In Spain the benchmark IBEX-35 stock index reacted by plummeting 5.2 percent while the 10-year bond yield rocketed up to 7.06 percent, an unsustainably high level over the longer term.Monti said he did not consider Draghi's failure to produce a fully formed plan as "a step backwards." He said he and Rajoy had signed a joint state...

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