Investors predict at least one euro exit

The 17-nation euro area will lose at least one member in the next year, according to 58% of investors surveyed by Barclays Plc.

The poll, which was taken from June 7 to June 14 and closed before Greece’s election, showed a 19 percentage-point increase since March in the number of respondents anticipating a euro exit. Half of those asked said the exodus would be limited to Greece.

“Investor caution has increased as the euro-area problems are once again at the forefront of investors’ concerns,” Paul Robinson, Barclays’s global head of foreign exchange research in London, said in a report.