Experts show cautious optimism for the eurozone in 2014

2013 was the least tumultuous for the eurozone since Greece revealed a vast hole in its books back in 2009. The consensus on January 2014 is that the year would be just as calm, a view held by some who were predicting the currency bloc's demise little more than a year before.

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