Eurobond

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An 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."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Eurobond. alt-of

    "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, […]"

  3. 3
    Proposed 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Euro- + bond, modeled after Eurodollar.

Etymology 2

From euro- + bond.

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