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  Eurozone Unemployment Sets Record

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 31, 2012

  Unemployment throughout the eurozone hit a record, statistics revealed, with the numbers for many individual nations following suit.

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  Draghi, With Credibility at Stake, Ups Ante in Debt Fight

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 30, 2012

  ECB President Mario Draghi is upping the ante after saying last week he would do "whatever it takes" to preserve the euro.

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  Draghi’s Dilemma: ‘Whatever it takes’ Could Alienate Fellow ECB Members

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 27, 2012

  Mario Draghi, president of the ECB, may have painted himself into a corner with his London speech on Thursday promising to do “whatever it takes” to rescue the euro.

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  Greece Forms New Government

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 20, 2012

  On Wednesday Greece managed to agree in principle to form a conservative coalition government, with three pro-bailout parties agreeing to cooperate and giving the coalition a majority of 179 seats.

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  Soros’ Greek Election Prediction Comes to Fruition

  By Ben Warwick, Quantitative Equity Strategies  |  June 18, 2012

  With a recent speech delivered in Italy earlier this month, investment mogul George Soros believes that the euro may still continue to survive.

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  G7 Sets Crisis Conference Call After Soros Warning

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 5, 2012

  G7 leaders planned a conference call Tuesday ahead of a scheduled mid-June summit meeting, after a weekend warning by the billionaire George Soros that Europe had just three months to salvage the euro.

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  Bundesbank Warns Greece as E.U. Leaders Meet

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 23, 2012

  Germany’s Bundesbank warned Greece on Wednesday that if it failed to carry through with reforms it had previously agreed to, it would jeopardize any further aid funds.

• ECB Plans to Hold Firm in Debt Crisis Policy

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 3, 2012

  The ECB had no plans to announce at its Thursday meeting that it would launch any additional bond-buying measures or take any other action to combat the debt crisis in the euro zone, holding steady against calls for more action.

• Spain Should Solve Its Own Problems: German Bank Chief

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  April 18, 2012

  Jens Weidmann, a policymaker at the European Central Bank and head of Germany's Bundesbank, said Spain should look upon its rising bond yields as a signal that it needs to fix its own problems and not look to the ECB for help via bond purchases.

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  German Concern over ECB Funding Grows

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  March 13, 2012

  Germany is getting worried–more worried than usual–about the level of debt in the eurozone. The European Central Bank’s Target2 system indicates that money owed to the Bundesbank now totals 489 billion euros ($656 billion