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The article offers advisory opinion regarding the claim that a wider collapse would likely mean real gross domestic product (GDP) contraction of between 5% to 10% or higher for the former euro-zone members. Northern Trust claims a wider euro-zone collapse could mean anything from the withdrawal of a few countries, perhaps Spain and Portugal, to the retention of just a euro-core built around Germany and a few others. Another opinion cites the return to gold as the ultimate safe-harbor asset.