Treasury foresees 'probable' fall in Chinese investment

(ANSA) - Milan, September 15 - Economic uncertainty in China may lead to a "probable reduction" in Chinese interest in Italian treasury bonds but Japanese investors "are returning", the Treasury's public-debt department general manager, Maria Cannata, said Tuesday.
    Renewed interest from Japan "is very comforting because it is an acknowledgement of the progress made by Italy," Cannata said. The treasury official added that it is "too early to see" whether Chinese interest in Italian debt has dropped because the latest figures are two months old.
    "We are working with the July figures," she explained.