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British and Hong Kong leaders said Monday they will team up to develop London into an international trading center for China's currency.

Even without the economic crisis, many Europeans seem to believe that the day their new currency was introduced may be one better quickly forgotten.

Germany's finance minister says he is confident that Europe's politicians will manage to stabilize the eurozone in 2012 and keep the continent's common currency together.

Not using the shared currency turns out to have been a blessing for Poland, though there are signs of trouble.

The head of a volunteer organization in Cornwall, England, is calling on his county to form its own currency to protect itself from the faltering global economy, the BBC reports .

Aug. 15 -- Takuji Okubo, chief Japan economist at Societe Generale SA in Tokyo, speaks about the nation's economy and currency.

Robert B. Zoellick, the World Bank president, argues that its most valuable currency isn’t money — it’s information.

May 25 -- New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English talks about the country's economy and currency.

Switzerland's central bank says it has lost 21 billion Swiss francs ($22 billion) in 2010 as the currency, considered by investors as a safe haven, rose strongly against the dollar and the euro.

Despite the debt crisis, Estonia ranks among the places where the euro is still a symbol — tarnished, perhaps — of hope and prosperity.