Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s “commitment to the euro is total,” Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein said.

“I don’t think that Greece should leave the euro,” Blankfein said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Russia’s second-largest city today. “People should work hard on keeping Greece in the euro. That’s not to say that it won’t go out.”

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