Posted on 11/30/2006 5:39:26 AM PST by shrinkermd
The sagging dollar fell Thursday to its lowest level against the pound in 14 years amid a rise in U.K. house prices and a seasonal rally in the British currency.
The dollar also declined against the euro and yen.
In morning trading in London, the pound hit $1.9562, up from $1.9462 late Wednesday in New York -- its strongest showing against the dollar since September 1992, before Britain was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. The pound last reached the $2 level on Sept. 8, 1992
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"...German Deputy Economics Minister Bernd Pfaffenbach said overnight that the recent gains of the euro reflect the strength of the euro-zone's economy and that it would be wrong to complain about
As this is posted gold up $4.80 per oz.
Huge amounts of dollar reserves are being positioned for Euros and gold.
Baloney!
Looks like I'll be popping over to NYC to do a bit Christmas shopping next week. $2 to the quid makes the US a very cheap place for us Brits to visit.
Invite some friends. Bring lots of pounds!
In this case it would be just as easy to invest in the actual currencies that are increasing, rather than gold, but whatever.
Good idea. Enjoy!
You have got that right. Pure baliney.
What this will do is lower the euro's buying power for everything chinese, and that won't help them a bit. To the contrary.
It's peg to the dollar so how could that be.
China is set up to be a trading partner with the U.S. -- and nothing else. De-linking the yuan from the U.S. dollar and linking it instead to another currency will make them less competitive with their single biggest trading partner and will ultimately drive them to ruin.
By all means, and enjoy yourself. I'll be hopping over to London for my shopping, only because I have so many miles on my British Air Card! I stay at the Selfridge across from Marks and Spencer. Wonderful place.
Years ago no one would have ever thought a communist country economic future would be tied to US. I am concerned when a communist country has the best of both worlds, strong economic engine and a ruler with steel fist. We are feeding a monster.
The U.S. economy is such an unsustainable, dysfunctional mess that it needs an economically inferior trading partner to keep it solvent. And it needs a country like China as a major trading partner because no free nation would ever do the kind of things China has done to perpetuate this system (i.e., linking their currency to the U.S. dollar, thereby ensuring that Chinese workers would basically serve as our slaves -- since they will always be at a competitive advantage from a labor standpoint but can never see their living standards rise as their currency strengthens).
What? You just answered your own question!
Its pegged to the dollar= more expensive for the euro against China & the US.
thats okay. - that happens to me more than I'd like to admit. 8^)
LOL! - that it needs more opinions like yours to laugh at.
Other than the name of the ruling party, what is communist about China?
In many ways they are the most capitalist nation in the world.
I did not say China's government is civil rights respecting or a democracy - it's not even close.
But that says nothing about whether their economic system is communist or capitalist, if you understand the difference.
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