"What you have here is speculative pressure, " said Brad Hintz of Sanford C.

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Yet the analogy with Argentina might have been closer still had Italy retained the lira, and thus been subject to the same sort of speculative pressure that eventually broke Argentina's link to the dollar.

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Neither peg has recently come under speculative pressure.

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If these reforms are designed to make the contracts less speculative, the Treasury has resisted pressure to change contracts to explicitly penalise those investors who sell their PFI projects early to generate vast profits.

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