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There isn't even any exchange rate risk as both Ireland and Portugal are in the Euro.


Nope; if a country leaves the euro it suddenly matters which banks’s name is on your debt notes.


That's true although we haven't seen any country leave yet.


Does it? Aren't they Euro-denominated anyway?


No a Greek-issued euro debt instrument would become a new currency decoupled from the euro with a floating exchange rate if Greece left the euro, for example. That’s what all the hooplah a few years back was about.




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