Euro
25 May 2012
Citigroup's top economist Michael Saunders has forecast Greece will exit Europe's single currency on 1 January 2013, and its new currency will immediately depreciate by 60%.
24 May 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior European Union (EU) officials last night called on Greece to shelve plans to quit the single currency and urged it to see out its austerity programme.
09 May 2012
The euro has fallen below the $1.30 barrier against the dollar, as Sunday's European election hangover continues to unsettle investors.
03 April 2012
An 11-year-old boy has been highly commended for his imaginative entry to a competition to find a credible plan for a euro exit.
13 March 2012
Eurozone finance ministers have signed off a second bailout for Greece, paving the way for the first €130bn package this month that aims to finance the country until 2014.
08 March 2012
Ministers have been urged by an influential committee to draw up a plan of action to help the country cope in the event of a eurozone collapse.
21 February 2012
The euro rose sharply against the dollar as news of the €130bn loan to Greece was announced.
14 February 2012
The embattled Greek economy shrunk by 7% in the last quarter of 2011, as fiscal and political crises ravaged the region.
06 February 2012
Concerns over a potential hard landing in China, the prospect of renewed turmoil in Iraq and plays on the gold price are among the top ten themes for investors to consider in 2012, according to new research.
03 February 2012
A sharp contraction in the eurozone economy and further ECB intervention could put more pressure on the euro this year, said Philip Gibbs, manager of the £711m Jupiter Absolute Return fund.
26 January 2012
The euro needs to see a sharp fall of at least 30%, bringing it into line with the US dollar, or else the eurozone is “doomed”, Nouriel Roubini has warned.
25 January 2012
Billionaire investor George Soros has warned Europe could see a bout of deflation if harsh austerity measures wanted by Germany are implemented.
17 January 2012
Ignis Argonaut's Barry Norris believes concerns over a possible euro collapse are overstated, despite S&P’s raft of downgrades last Friday putting further pressure on the single currency.
16 January 2012
The euro has reached an 11-year low against the yen and has fallen sharply against the US dollar as investors sold the single currency following S&P's mass eurozone downgrades last Friday.
11 January 2012
In 2011 the euro underperformed the US dollar by 3.2%. Given everything that's occurred in Europe, many people have been surprised that the euro has not been weaker, and numerous commentators continue to call for a much weaker euro in this calendar year.
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