Sun Jun 29, 5:01 AM ET MILAN (Reuters) - The worst of the financial crisis is over and markets should start settling from the second half of this year, the head of France's biggest listed bank, BNP Paribas, told Italy's La Repubblica newspaper."The worst should be over and I think that from the second half onwards the crisis should normalize: that is, the phase of exceptional turbulence on the markets should end," Baudouin Prot, chief executive of BNP, said in an interview published on Sunday.
"I still expect (markets) to stay volatile," he added.
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