Euro Area Unemployment

source: eurostat

Large And Uninsured Deposits

[chart] Large deposits and uninsured deposits as % of total deposits. In percent as of December 2007. via $JPM twitter.com/lemasabachthan…

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on forecasts, again

source: wsj

Large Eurozone Banks Weekly/Ytd Perfomance

EURO STOXX BANKS weekly performance: -2.87%

source: bloomberg/macromonitor

BofA: Better for #Italy exit the EUR

from: BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research

Even though much of the market focus on exit risk has been on Greece, Italy and Ireland have the highest relative incentive to voluntarily exit the euro, by our analysis. In the case of Italy, it faces a relatively higher chance of achieving an orderly exit and it stands to benefit significantly from competitive gains, growth gains and even balance sheet gains. No wonder former Prime Minister Berlusconi has been recently quoted as saying that leaving the euro is not a “blasphemy.” Among the peripheral countries, Spain appears to have the lowest relative incentive to leave.

While Germany is the country most likely to achieve an orderly exit from the Euro, it also has the lowest incentive of any country to leave, in our view. It would suffer from lower growth, possibly higher borrowing costs, and negative balance sheet effect. Austria, Finland and Belgium don’t have strong incentive to leave, either.