Gold futures fell the most this year on speculation that Greece's anti-austerity party victory won't result in
the country leaving the euro currency bloc, crimping demand for haven assets.
Any country leaving the euro would also breach the treaties of Maastricht, Lisbon and Rome, and therefore be forced to leave the EU.
Not exact matches
If Greece does end up
leaving the
euro, its example could end up paving the way for a
country like Italy to do the same.
Analysts worry that full - scale bank runs in Greece could prompt bank runs across Southern Europe, as investors speculate that Greece won't be the only
country to
leave the
euro.
The European Commission, which negotiates on behalf of the other European
countries, has said that the U.K. will have to pay about 60 billion
euros before
leaving the EU.
ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- In a major shakeup for Greek broadcasting, only two of the
country's seven private TV stations have survived a landmark license auction that raised 246 million
euros ($ 275 million) for the cash strapped
left - wing government.
A total of 315.6 billion
euros of capital has
left the
country in the year to end - June, equivalent to nearly one - third of the
country's economic output.
The
country has reportedly bowed to EU demands that it pay up to 100 bln
euros when it
leaves the bloc.
Greece has a new government, led by
left - wing, anti-austerity Syriza — an event that has heightened fears about the
country's economic future and relationship with the other 18
countries that use the
euro.
«That said, however, Cyprus came closest of any
country to date to
leaving the
euro in a disorderly fashion,» the global association of financial institutions said in a report.
Outright Monetary Transactions are a bond - buying program announced in September 2012 in which the European Central Bank would offer to purchase eurozone
countries» short - term bonds in the secondary market to bring down the market interest rates faced by
countries subject to speculation that they might
leave the
euro.
And the Commission is quite wrong to say that in legal terms, a
country that
leaves the
euro must
leave the EU.
So a more likely scenario than a «soaring
euro» might be exit by the surplus
countries within the German economic sphere (Yanis Varoufakis is predicting precisely this, and sooner rather than later) followed by a currency collapse, since the
euro would then belong to those
countries economically unable to
leave it.
Another theory floating around is that if the weaker
countries of the
euro leave (e.g. Greece, etc) and the core keep the
euro, then the value of the
euro will actually rise.
Outright Monetary Transactions are a bond - buying program announced in September 2012 in which the ECB would offer to purchase eurozone
countries» short - term bonds in the secondary market to bring down the market interest rates faced by
countries subject to speculation that they might
leave the
euro.
The price on the
left are
Euros, for European
countries.
I don't mind paying a bit extra as untrackable orders often get lost in my
country, plus I got 7
euro left as a credit due to shipping price change.
MLex understands officials are working on a figure of potentially 40 billion
euros covering the period to the end of 2019, when the
country is expected to
leave the union.
While not as extreme as banning cash, clamping down on moving funds out of the
country (China) and hyperinflation (Venezuela and much of Africa)
leaves citizens without the ability to buy
euros or USD looking for anything that will depreciate slower than its currency.