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Forum: Canada
Jan 25th 2011, 11:00 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

Difficult to see much in the way of interest rate increases for the forseeable future against this background:
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Forum: Canada
Jul 9th 2010, 7:25 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

Do you know how Kraft paid for Cadbury? Was it just cash for the Cadbury shares or cash and Kraft shares? I generally think takeovers where shares are issued are dodgy. I remember there being a...
Forum: Canada
Jul 9th 2010, 6:22 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

I think the UK government have made it far to easy for foreign companies to aquire UK companies without the arrangement being reciprocated. Just look at the water and power utilities mostly owned by...
Forum: Canada
May 27th 2010, 6:07 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

And in this situation liable to deepen a crash though. ie increase in interest to reduce inflation may actually cause inflation to rise leading to another increase in interest rates leading to rise...
Forum: Canada
May 27th 2010, 5:37 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

Including mortgage interest means as the interest rate rises that element of measured inflation would actually rise, the reverse of what is intended. Is that why you don't agree with including it?
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Forum: Canada
May 27th 2010, 3:54 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

Is that 10% average decline in house prices across Canada? If they are admitting to that it'll probably be worse.

Does the Bank of Canada set interest rates to meet an inflation target as in the...
Forum: Canada
May 26th 2010, 6:36 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

This is quite a good summary of the Eurozone economies with UK included for comparison.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10150007.stm
Forum: Canada
May 21st 2010, 3:29 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

It's sentiment on the US dollar and Euro that drives the markets. GBP and $CAN have trivial influence by comparison.

As US$ has gone down commodities priced in US$ have gone up so suppliers like...
Forum: Canada
Mar 18th 2010, 6:45 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

I tend to agree with you there. There is something on the BBC today about borrowing for january and February being not quite as bad as expected.

This is an interesting link from your original...
Forum: Canada
Jan 7th 2009, 4:22 pm
Replies: 2,672
Views: 290,501
Posted By jimf

Re: Exchange rate

This is an interesting graph showing the $CAD against $US and £GB long term history together with interest rates.
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