1.  Gold stocks are the bright spot as investors seek safe havens from uncertainty and wobbly currencies.

2.  It also faces the slowest growth in a decade, interest rates near five-year highs, slumping corporate earnings, and a wobbly currency.

3.  Still, analysts said the gains could be short-lived as wobbly currencies, rising interest rates and a credit squeeze in the region throttle economic growth.

4.  However, monetary authorities fear that such measures would destabilize the already wobbly currency.

5.  Kohl is against relaxing any conditions for joining the union since the German public would be loath to give up its strong marks for a wobbly European currency.