Italy recovery stalls, threatening debt plan

Italy's recovery from recession virtually stalled towards the end of 2015, complicating Italian efforts at debt reduction, worse-than-anticipated growth figures indicated Friday. The Bank of Italy had last month forecast an expansion of 0.8 percent for 2015 with growth accelerating to 1.5 percent in both this year and 2017, broadly in line with the government's figures. Slower-than-anticipated growth could threaten Italy's pledge to start reducing its 2.2 trillion debt mountain this year and exa