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Growing Euro Breakup Risk Seen

Moodys warns debt crisis threatens regions sovereign ratings.

By Simon Kennedy, Bloomberg | Updated on November 28, 2011

Banks and ratings companies are sounding their loudest warnings yet that the euro area risks unraveling unless its guardians intensify efforts to beat the two-year sovereign debt crisis.

As European finance chiefs prepare to meet this week, and Italy seeks to raise as much as 8.8 billion euros ($11.7 billion) in bond sales, economists from Morgan Stanley, UBS AG, and Nomura International Plc say governments and the European Central Bank must step up their crisis response. Moody’s Investors Service said today the “rapid escalation” of the crisis threatens all of the region’s sovereign ratings.

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