With a fired-up team possessing a fresh set of downs inside the red zone, the bears looked like a shoe-in to put the ball in the end zone in the early going Monday and to effectively break the game wide open.

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The biggest risk associated with this scenario is that the moves towards debt mutualisation and a banking union might not, after all, be enough to stabilise the remaining euro area, resulting in a total break-up of the euro zone and triggering a savage recession with hugely damaging economic consequences.

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Many have continued to dwell on the main headlines worrying about the prospect of a euro zone break-up, a hard landing in China, or a recession in the U.S., among many others.

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As depositors and bondholders across the euro zone factor in the increased risk that their assets could also fall victim to a break-up, other countries would come under pressure.

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If the US continues to pump out negative economic data likes it is its job though, 1.3000 could easily break way and a run to the next zone of 1.3100 to 1.3120 could be in order.

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The idea, repeated so often, that the euro zone needs to either break up into multiple currencies or form some sort of superstate has no basis in reality.

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But the half finished goalless, with the situation in the other games at the break meaning a goal would be enough to move West Brom out of the relegation zone.

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