CFOs fear euro break-up

The break-up of the euro is the single biggest threat to UK business in 2012, according to a Deloitte survey of FTSE 100 CFOs.

Britain’s top finance chiefs predict, with a 37% probability, at least one eurozone country leaving the single-currency before the end of this calendar year. The mood was summed up by one finance director, who conceded: ‘Everyone is waiting for something very bad to happen.’

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