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Market calm provides limited comfort

The relative calmness of the financial markets during the Cyprus episode and after the Italian election might be seen as an indication that the worst of the euro-zone crisis is now behind us. But it is the behaviour of bank deposits in Cyprus and elsewhere – not the calmness of the bond markets – that will tell us whether the crisis is really over the worst or has entered a new and potentially more dangerous phase.

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