Callow said, noting that it was a surge in yields on Italian bonds last month that threatened core countries in Europe like Germany and France with contagion, prompting investors to dump their bonds.

Callow说，强调上个月意大利债券利息激增通过蔓延已经威胁到了欧洲的核心国家比如德国和法国，引发投资者对他们的债券进行抛售。

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Mr Callow said that while a weak yen would help boost profits of exporters, the rise in energy costs "would offset some of those gains".

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The Italian election "is not causing widespread panic yet, " said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac Institutional Bank in Sydney.

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"It is one of those strange moves because we can't attribute it to a payrolls report or Japanese economic news, " said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac in Sydney.

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