2016-08-29telegraph.co.uk

More worrying is what S&P also said: that debt coming due over the next 12 months is 755pc of Britain's external receipts and large sums have to be rolled over continuously. This is the highest for all 131 rated states, thanks to London's role as a global financial hub. We will not know whether there is any mismatch, either in currencies or maturities, until the repayment deadlines hit and the skeletons come out of the closet. The test lies ahead.

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Morgan Stanley says [Eurocrats] need to wake up. It warns that the eurozone will suffer almost as much damage as Britain in a 'high stress scenario', and so do others. Danske Bank says the UK and the eurozone will both crash into recession later this year.

If so - and that is not yet clear - it is hard to see how the eurozone could withstand such a shock, given the levels of unemployment and the debt-deflation dynamics of southern Europe, and given the intesity of political revolt in Italy and France.



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