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Forum: Canada
Jan 25th 2009, 5:34 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

I haven't done it for a while, but last time I did I recall being presently surprised that the in-bank rate was so good.

Somewhere like HSBC might be worth a look as they let you hold accounts in...
Forum: Canada
Jan 23rd 2009, 4:24 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Maybe, but so very of much of this is down to consumer confidence being in denial isn't necessarily a bad thing. Debt (personal, provincial, Governmental) is in a whole different ballpark across the...
Forum: Canada
Jan 23rd 2009, 4:11 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

The Bank of Canada's latest report (yesterday, I believe) was forecasting the recession here being brutal, but relatively swift. It seems there is some optimism Canada, as one of the better placed in...
Forum: Canada
Oct 2nd 2008, 3:18 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

On the financial news this morning they'd said something along the lines of...

"Investment money has been flooding out of the US into Europe recently whilst Europe was seen as a safer haven, but...
Forum: Canada
Aug 31st 2008, 4:19 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

I'm an idiot for not porting all our CDN savings into USD when it was 1.10 to the CAD a few months back. Would have made 15% already with barely a few clicks of the mouse.

Sigh. I KNEW that...
Forum: Canada
Dec 5th 2007, 4:48 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

I think the markets are pricing in the increased likelihood of a UK rate cut tomorrow.

It's pretty volatile at present, if you see a good spot rate on a day like yesterday it might be worth...
Forum: Canada
Nov 28th 2007, 4:28 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Oh yeah, we've no complaints, it was our choice to come here, and the wonderful view of the snowy mountains this morning was priceless!

:thumbsup:
Forum: Canada
Nov 28th 2007, 3:45 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

That's a lovely theory but alas for us it'll come too late :frown:

Still, them's the breaks.
Forum: Canada
Nov 26th 2007, 4:18 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Yeah, I've split it into four exchanges since late summer, I have one left and am currently averaging 2.04. I had to move a load last week as we're (hopefully) going to be completing on a property...
Forum: Canada
Nov 26th 2007, 3:53 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Well up into the 2.04's today, presumably on the news that OPEC might up production - oil is down a bit as a result.

Entirely predictable of course, I moved some money across last week which is...
Forum: Canada
Nov 15th 2007, 5:01 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Well, I just moved approx. one third of our home sale proceeds across @ 1.9974, which was as close to the magic 2.000 as I could get them with the interbank rates at about 2.007.

The rates are up...
Forum: Canada
Nov 13th 2007, 4:10 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Well, to flog this old horse yet again, just this very second I've seen the pound nosing over $2.00 CDN on the interbank rates, most welcome for those still with money to move / waiting on house...
Forum: Canada
Nov 8th 2007, 6:25 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

...which has knocked the rate up into the 1.97s as a drop was already half priced in.

Might move some over tomorrow.
Forum: Canada
Nov 8th 2007, 3:41 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Pressure on Bank of Canada to chop rates... link (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/soaring_loonie).
Forum: Canada
Nov 7th 2007, 3:16 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

(from Yahoo Finance (http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/07112007/325/sterling-hits-26-year-high.html))

Fingers crossed. Up into the heady heights of $1.93 today.

Mind if, if they do chop the rates it'll...
Forum: Canada
Nov 7th 2007, 5:27 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Into the 1.90x range then.

What is fueling this rapid change - FX traders or the oil price?

I am now thinking, again, of moving money into USD, with the logic that although Canada might not...
Forum: Canada
Nov 6th 2007, 8:00 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

It's in the 1.92's?

Stuff this, think we might forget buying a place altogether and leave the money under the mattress in the UK.
Forum: Canada
Nov 1st 2007, 11:04 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Well, it's meant us being limited to one car rather than two. I guess that's not the end of the world and hey, we're here.

At least we're not moving US dollars!
Forum: Canada
Oct 20th 2007, 6:16 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

I walked into HBSC in Vancouver today with a crisp twenty pound note and walked out with forty Canadian dollars and fifty cents.

Maybe I'll get my parents to Fedex me suitcases of cash from the...
Forum: Canada
Oct 18th 2007, 5:13 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Indeed.

Something of minor interest -

Sterling: US Dollar, approx 1:2.04
Sterling: Canadian Dollar, approx 1:1.98
Canadian Dollar: US Dollar, approx 1:1.02

My maths may be a bit shaky...
Forum: Canada
Oct 18th 2007, 4:46 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Interesting times. More than just being a standard blip in the rate this looks like being a medium term trend and with our UK house sale still not completed ( :curse: ) I'm starting to think about...
Forum: Canada
Oct 2nd 2007, 6:10 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

I'm quite glad I didn't buy a shedload of US dollars a couple of months back when I was pondering it as a end-up-with-more-loonies-in-the-long-run strategy.
Forum: Canada
Jul 18th 2007, 4:31 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

At first attempt, I got them up to 2.1225.

Going to call back in a bit if the interbank rate is still in the mid 14s and attempt 2.125.

It's only a few Canadian notes difference, but they're...
Forum: Canada
Jul 18th 2007, 2:20 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

If the interbank rate is 2.14 what am I liable to be able to wring out of HIFX as a spot rate do you reckon (presuming they'll offer me about 2.12)?

2.125? 2.13?
Forum: Canada
Jul 18th 2007, 11:23 am
Replies: 2,672
Views: 291,751
Posted By Iain Mc

Re: Exchange rate

Something seems to be going on today anyway, back up toward the $2.15s for the loonie.

And the US dollar goes from bad to worse... over $2.05 this morning!
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