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Cohen




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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:27    Post subject: The british £pound drops dramatically, wtf?
Just got paid via a wire transfer from the states and the £ to $ rate is 1.4 Shocked Shocked

Thats a drop of .2 in a single day, anyone know what the hell caused that?

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ixigia
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:35    Post subject:
stop being sophisticated and join the euro train!

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bushwacka




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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:43    Post subject:
i don't know either, but i'm far more busy booking a flight to london right now anyway Cool Face
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inz




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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:44    Post subject:
Yeah it's been on the news lately:

http://digitaljournal.com/article/288143
http://www.risk.net/credit/news/1588742/uk-lose-aaa-rating-risk-net-readers

Guess the brits could soon be wishing they had joined the Euro (not that it's doing particularly well atm either).

Maybe it's George Soros fucking around with your currency again? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:50    Post subject:
Nice... it would be cheaper for me to import Whisky Smug
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:54    Post subject:
xe.com says the rate is ~1.5 now, 1.55 a week ago, 1.57 2 weeks ago and ~1.6 a month ago Smile

so maybe someone's taking a piece of your action Wink

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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 02:58    Post subject:
Makes me wonder if the £ is being raped by bankers to make the UK population scream "go € today before we're bankrupt". UK staying out of EMU is a major horn in the side of EU.

Oh how I wish EU would dismantle itself and Europe return to common trade agreements instead of trying to build a Mega Europa with centralised power. Sad

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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 03:17    Post subject:
lol

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tainted4ever
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 03:51    Post subject:
Yeah saw that today on the news as well. You got screwed if you got it at 1.4 =/

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snoop1050
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 08:44    Post subject:
ixigia wrote:
stop being sophisticated and join the euro train!

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so shitty countries like greece can devalue the euro? shitty countires like spain and whoever else is on the brink

were better off with the pound its still worth more than the euro and will probably remain so.

£ will recover after the next elections with labor stop printing billions to give to the banks, its no suprise the currency is losing value when they are making more of it.
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 19:00    Post subject:
well, from what i ve read, the financial situation is worse for the u.k. and spain than it is for greece. I cant say i feel bad for the pound, hahahaha
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Skaven




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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 20:26    Post subject:
Its been fucked for a while, I remember a few years back where it was almost £1 = $2. It'll recover eventually but I woulden't exchange anything for less than 1.6 if you can help it.

And yeah, you can keep your shitty Euro!
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Lutzifer
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PostPosted: Tue, 2nd Mar 2010 20:32    Post subject:
yeah, shopping at amazon.co.uk from mainland europe has been fun for quite some time now Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed, 3rd Mar 2010 01:31    Post subject:
Lutzifer wrote:
yeah, shopping at amazon.co.uk from mainland europe has been fun for quite some time now Laughing

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