Italian banks to help fill Carige's capital hole in effort to avert crisis - sources

ROME/MILAN (Reuters) - Healthy Italian banks will help to fill a 400 million euro (350 million pounds) hole on Banca Carige's balance sheet, sources close to the matter said on Monday, in order to avert a possible crisis that would further destabilise the sector. Italian banks have come under renewed pressure due to their inflated holdings of the country's government bonds, the value of which has fallen sharply since an anti-EU and anti-austerity populist coalition government formed in mid-May...