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Italian Journalistic Language — Linguaggio Giornalistico·Italian Economic and Financial News Vocabulary
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Rule reminder

Italian economic journalism uses a specialised vocabulary mixing Italian terms with anglicisms. Key areas: macroeconomics (PIL, inflazione, spread, deficit), corporate news (utile, fatturato, OPA, fusione), banking (tassi di interesse, liquidità, bail-out), labour (cassa integrazione, contratto collettivo, sciopero), and market (Borsa, indici, crollo, rally). The Bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia) and ISTAT (statistics agency) are key institutional sources.

Italian Economic and Financial News Vocabulary1 / 10

The headline reads: 'Banca d'Italia alza i requisiti patrimoniali per gli istituti di credito'. What are 'requisiti patrimoniali'?

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