But experts stress that French and German perceptions of eurozone integration still widely diverge, and Ms Merkel herself said there was still no clarity about what a eurozone finance minister would actually do.
In recent weeks, analysts had observed that the daily midpoint had begun to diverge from where their models predicted it should be based on the PBoC's previously stated methodology.
In other words, a cinephile's picks are bound to diverge from one who focuses on the bottom line.
But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.
We have had far less time to diverge than the members of many other animal families, like the equids (horses, zebras, donkeys) or canids (wolves, dogs, jackals).
When profit forecasts are tightly clustered, it signals to investors that there is consensus among prognosticators; when they diverge wildly, it shows a lack of clarity.
The next thing was to divide the camels, and to charge them with the treasure, after which we each took command of our own and marched out of the valley, till we reached the place in the high road where the routes diverge, and then we parted, the dervish going towards Balsora, and I to Bagdad.