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Why does the EU want U.S. dollars?
Paddy Hirsch Dec 2, 2011
Marketplace Money Senior Producer Paddy Hirsch explains why Europe needs dollars instead of euros as the EU tries to sort out its financial problems.
A doomsday scenario for the euro
Jeremy Hobson Dec 2, 2011
What will happen to the global economy if the eurozone breaks up? A new book considers the options.
Ring-fencing Italy
Paddy Hirsch Nov 29, 2011
There's been a lot of talk recently about the need to ring-fence certain economies in Europe. These aren't the economies that have defaulted or been bailed out; these are the economies that are too big to fail. Italy is the most glaring example.
Europe weighs greater fiscal consolidation
Stephen Beard Dec 2, 2011
Eurozone countries are under pressure to consolidate their fiscal policies as a way to resolve their current debt crisis.
Why the world cares about European bond sales
Stacey Vanek Smith Dec 2, 2011
The normally prosaic process in which European governments borrow money has become a daily test of their economic health.
Thinking the unthinkable -- a eurozone "divorce"
Sarah Gardner Dec 2, 2011
If the 17-member eurozone did break up -- either because of bond market pressure or irreconcilable differences -- what would the divorce look like?
Is the euro's death approaching?
Stephen Beard Nov 25, 2011
In yet another bad development in the eurozone debt crisis, Italy saw its borrowing costs skyrocket. And now a British regulator has called on U.K. banks to prepare for the possible disintegration of the euro.
Financial markets unimpressed by EU treaties plan
Stephen Beard Nov 24, 2011
Critics say a plan proposed by leaders of Germany, France and Italy to modify European Union treaties won't help with the immediate crisis.
Germany struggles to sell its debt
Steve Chiotakis Nov 23, 2011
The country that's considered the strongest in the eurozone had a hard time convincing investors to lay down cash for its debt today, which means the troubles going on in Europe could be entering a new phase.
A European bank run around the bond market
David Brancaccio Nov 22, 2011
The teachable moment out of the European financial mess today involves creeping contagion in unlikely places.
