As the European Union's leaders prepared to choose in Brussels which countries would qualify for the single currency , a row over who would head the planned European Central Bank shook the markets' faith in the future currency's credibility.
Stocks and bonds are, in the final analysis, pieces of paper promising units of currency in the future.
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Cyprus has exposed the insecurity of Europe's leaders about their currency's future.
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It is a political currency, and for it to remain a currency or at some point in the future become an economic currency, it will take massive political resolve on the part of the members of the EU. I wrote last year that there are only a few paths in front of us.
The newspaper said that only 21% of Italians know that the future single currency is called the euro.
Future local currency bond issues in Brazil are going to pay a lot less in interest than they have in several years.
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The fact that the UK would not be joining the single currency in the foreseeable future, including under a Labour government, was evidence that Europe was becoming more "flexible", Mr Miliband argued.
Chris Towner, of foreign currency exchange brokers HiFX, notes that the UK is on a stable outlook from Moody's, meaning there are unlikely to be any further shocks for the currency in the near future.
None of these is ready for the tough discipline of a single currency that rules out any future devaluation.
The risk to the future of European currency is further aggravated by the fact that too many different strategies continue to be under serious consideration.
New Democracy's win could set off a rally in global financial markets Monday after weeks of uncertainty over Greece stoked investor fears over the future of the currency bloc.
And, given the risk that Denmark might in future give its currency a freer float, its interest rates are a percentage point higher than those for the euro, even though Danish consumer-price inflation has recently been lower than that in the euro area.
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But still, for those few months, the future of the single currency seemed to turn on events in Dublin.
That has left some savers concerned about the future value of their currency.
Shilling is a dollar bull because he sees the U.S. currency as a safe haven during future deflationary times.
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As you point out, the future should be gold currency, gold backed currency or currency representing gold that can be used everywhere.
They said the country had implemented reforms requested by Brussels and must now be granted relief by the ECB, or the future of the single currency will be threatened.
If the vote fails to get through Parliament, Cyprus faces potential bankruptcy and a possible from the euro, which could reignite concerns in financial markets over the future of the single currency.
Yet now with the serious drop in gold, coupled as it has been by a bull run in stocks, it appears that investors are peeking out of their inflation hedges in the hope that profits and returns in a reliable currency will be available in the future.
The prime minister said there was "no doubt" the eurozone would have to work more closely together on banking supervision and in other areas in future as "we know that it is necessary for the single currency to deal with these issues so it can work properly in the future".
For Chancellor Merkel this pact is the key to the future survival of the single currency.
In fact, given this agency's penchant for currency devaluations, why not further decree future salaries be paid in Indonesian rupiahs or Thai bahts or Mexican pesos?
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