In May, a new five-euro note will be put into circulation by the European Central Bank.

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They gave workers a five-euro note, folded into the origami version of a little shirt, plus a two-euro coin painted with a smiley face.

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The Irish government issued the total 31bn-euro promissory note in order to cover most of the 34bn-euro cost of rescuing Anglo Irish.

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"The outcome had long been expected ... fears of more G7 interventions prompted traders to buy back the euro, " said Hirokazu Note at Sumitomo Bank in Japan.

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U.S. markets were closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday but European stocks ended on a weak note after leaders of the euro zone's three biggest nations France, Germany and Italy ruled out expanding the European Central Bank's role to help support weaker euro-zone states.

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Note, however, with the Euro weakening, the payout in dollars will be less.

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The dollar rose against the yen and euro, while the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, rose to 2.276%.

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" The note adds: "How long Greece could be within the euro and live with its own internal currency is an open debate.

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In spite of the signs of improvement overall, IHS Global Insight economist Howard Archer sounded a note of caution for the coming year: "We suspect that the euro zone's recovery could well lose momentum for a time in 2010 before growth starts to gradually pick up again, " he said.

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They note the broad welcome for his plan to add pro-growth measures to the euro zone's fiscal austerity.

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The dollar rose against the euro, while demand for Treasurys rose, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 1.967%.

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The IMF chief is currently enroute to the Euro-group meeting in Brussels on November 20, cutting short her Asian stay and another date of note to diarize for next week.

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The dollar rose against the euro and the yen, while demand for Treasurys slipped, edging the yield on the benchmark 10-year note up to 1.861%.

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The dollar rose against the euro and the yen, while demand for Treasurys fell, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year note up to 1.87%.

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