Italy: Savona becomes Minister of EU relations, Tria is new finance Minister

According to the Italian news outlet La Stampa, League, and Five Star were able to agree that Paolo Savona's role in a possible coalition government would be the Minister of the EU relations. 

The initial reaction to this development weighed on the shared currency, and the dragged the EUR/USD pair to a fresh session low at 1.1640.

However, the pair was able to quickly reverse its course and spike up to the 1.17 handle after Giovanni Tria was named as the new Minister of finance.