Meanings
eurobond1
plural eurobonds
- Alternative letter-case form of Eurobond.
Before eurobonds, hidden wealth in Switzerland couldn't really do much; but now it could buy these fantastic pieces of paper, which could be carried anywhere, redemeed anywhere, […]
2018, Oliver Bullough, chapter 2, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 40
Eurobond2
plural Eurobonds · alternative eurobond
- businessAn international bond denominated in a currency not native to the country where it is issued.
As a result of Eurobond sales, foreign holders of dollars could find “attractive” investments and thereby refrain from selling the dollars to their central banks, sales that would cause more pressure to step up the gold outflow from America.
1968 January 15, John H. Allan, “Eurobonds Outpace The Rush for Gold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN - businessProposed government bonds to be issued in Euros jointly by the Eurozone states.
The most widely discussed eurobond concept is certainly the Blue Bond/Red Bond concept proposed by Jacques Delpla and Jakob von Weizsäcker (2010). They suggest that sovereign debt in euro area countries be split into two parts.
2012, William R. Cline, Resolving the European Debt Crisis, Peterson Institute, →ISBN, page 243
Origin
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