Most analysts believe that Mr. Simon will wait as the downturn in the euro zone persists.
Doubts over the country's future in the euro zone have grown sharply since the prior elections.
Yet, for some in the euro zone, the banking union needs only two pillars.
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February construction output in the euro zone fell on the month, a fourth straight decline.
It is increasingly clear that there are banks operating in the Euro Zone that are broken.
As losses mount in the euro zone, capital may trump liquidity in determining credit growth.
With exogenous red-lights flashing brightly in the euro zone, demand for the dollar is building.
Unfortunately, devaluation only for those needing it is not now an option in the Euro zone.
There are three short-term reasons to expect slightly choppier waters in the euro zone.
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Right now every major economy in the Euro zone is in, or close to, crisis.
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Like Greece in the euro zone, Stockton represents a difference of degree, not of kind.
Yet it would still be 130% of GDP, the highest in the euro zone (see chart).
Broad-money supply was flat in the euro zone in the 12 months to the end of March.
Inflation in the euro zone as a whole currently stands at 2.6% and in Germany at 2.1%.
All will want only a limited treaty change, perhaps one that applies only in the euro zone.
The crisis in the euro zone forced Mrs Merkel to push colossal bail-outs through a reluctant Bundestag.
Elsewhere in the euro zone there are glimmers of hope, especially in the ambition for structural reforms.
As a result, real incomes and hence consumer spending have grown more sluggishly in the euro zone.
Until recently, voters in the euro zone seemed to have accepted the idea of austerity and reform.
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We assume an average quarter-on-quarter growth rate of 0.3% in the euro zone and of 0.5% in Germany.
Stricter fiscal rules in the euro zone are a precondition for any strengthening of the firewall, Germany insists.
The IMF predicts that unemployment will remain the highest in the euro zone for at least five years.
Perhaps worst of all, the financial strain in the euro zone is increasingly apparent in the real economy.
Lackluster economic data as well ongoing concerns in the euro zone sent the markets into negative territory today.
In the euro zone, moreover, countries cannot easily mitigate the impact through looser monetary policy or currency devaluation.
All this comes as the economy is sputtering, thanks in part to a slowdown in the euro zone.
Europe has been a particularly tough market due to the economic crisis still unfolding in the euro zone.
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European markets pared earlier losses but closed lower, amid data showing some improvement in the euro zone's manufacturing sector.
With record high unemployment in the euro zone, failing austerity measures, and restive populations in southern Europe, the E.
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