TITLE

Europe's high-wire currency act

PUB. DATE

October 1992

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;10/5/92, Vol. 113 Issue 13, p28

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Speculates that Europe's financial ministers have discovered that the goal of unifying their currencies to facilitate trade and growth may not work. Britain and Italy have dropped out of the system; Attacks by speculators on the French franc; Pushing the franc to see if the system can withstand strain; Report from the industrial countries on the crisis.

ACCESSION #

9210051576

 

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