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£ falling back to 1.10, you can tell I have just spent 1,000 euro on lift passes and am about to head of to the Alps 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I bought my lift passes and Swiss Transfer Tickets yesterday for half term. Swiss Passes prices seemed to be at a very good exchange rate so I took advantage before their prices go up.
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Rising back up to nearly 1.12 - up over one percent today at the moment 
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think sterling is getting a boost from the cadburys bids.. 'excuse the pun' 
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on the rise so far again today, up half of a percent, 1.126
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thats about the price it was in may when this thread started. is there much point at all in keeping such a close eye on it? the tourist rate is kak anyway, i use a dodgy little kiosk just outside kingscross for the best rate, 'bout 1.11 at the moment(last time i looked)
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Good job we paid package for accom/half board and lift pass and also still have 250E left over from summer, otherwise might hav eto start skiing in scotland |
At the moment both the snow and the weather are better here than in the Alps. But the exchange rate for English Pounds is only 1:1...
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dinomartino, 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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ricfrench, you do not have to read the thread if you do not want to
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rayscoops,i did read the thread, which is why i asked if there is any point keeping such a close eye on it 
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You know it makes sense.
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if there is any point keeping such a close eye on it
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'bout as much point as there is speculating about the snow, I suppose.
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dinomartino,
sorry wasnt meant to be derogatory to scotland, which i love as a place 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I don't know if this has already been posted (I'm not going to read the whole thread! ), but the best exchange rates I've found have been Crown Currency Exchange. I've used them twice now and can recommend them.
There are some drawbacks in that it's a minimum of £300, and to get the best rates you have to pay a couple of months in advance. At the moment you can get 1.1201 for delivery on the 1st Feb, but 1.1450 for delivery after 18th Mar.
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rayscoops, good point, well presented 
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m00958, I've not seen anything about anyone coming to harm using CCE - but I would be cautious
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| Since the Crown companies offer a service whereby customers pay now for foreign exchange which will be delivered up to six or more months ahead, and jointly conduct gross transactions (according to the phone salesman I spoke to) of "several million pounds a week", the financial underpinnings leave something to be desired. |
Read the article and decide for yourself.
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achilles, that is interesting.
I'd never heard of them before seeing them touted on Working Lunch on BBC2. They recommended them for the best exchange rates. Damn BBC!
Not sure whether I'll use them again in the future. Having said that, I only ever change the min £300 and whilst it would not be good to lose that amount of money it would not be the end of the world.
I would definitely think more than twice if the amount was significant.
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achilles, I've made my decision based on that article - I don't like it that client's monies are not held in a separate, protected account.
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Achiles, thanks for the information. It seems as though the customer is basically getting into curreny trading.
The BBC in the form of consumer advice programmes were cheerfully recommending Icelandic banks because of their high interest rates and LLoyds shares because of the 8% dividend. Basically, don't trust entertainment dressed up as information.
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With the UK widely predicted to lose its AAA rating expect the pound to bomb.
Buy Euros while you can.
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bar shaker, I think (but we shall see) that the future status of the UK credit rating is already taken into account in the present exchange rate. Certainly the exchange rate has already been very beneficial to the company I work for. Skiing holiday costs apart, I hope you are right - but I think you are wrong.
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All eyes on the ECB will it bail out Greece?
If they do, will they go on to bail out Portugal Italy Ireland Spain. No of course not the ECB simply couldn't afford to.....could it?
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bar shaker, i saw a report today that it was widely un-predicted 
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Seems to have stuck around 1.1 for ages. The odd spike here and then but about 1.1 all the same
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1.13 today, highest since mid September
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You know it makes sense.
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rayscoops, Mutterings abound about Greece and now Irish banks failing 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Boredsurfing, Euro over half a percent down on the dollar and pound today already but nothing has really happened positive for Sterling for ages; it will be interesting what impact the widening 'fracture' in the ECB basket will have on the Euro. With UK interest rates so low I can not see any flood of investment to sterling though, but I can see a flood away from the Euro. Buy the greenback
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rayscoops, ECB held interest rates again yesterday. Will the BofE be brave and add a quarter back on ours next month.
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4th of February is the next sitting for the BoE. Could be good news for us half termers
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Boredsurfing, nope, nothing will happen until after the election. Interest rates are used to control inflation, and as inflation does not need any control (actually it needs to go up maybe) at the moment there is no need for a change in interest rates.
ECB interest rates are a real difficult one with differeing needs of the various countries !
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Is it 1.4 yet ?
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This article in The FT gives the reason the pound is improving. The ECB cannot raise rates as EU inflation is well below its target 2% so the Euro is set to take a bit of a bath.
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bar shaker, Hmm, so maybe a half of one percent increase on Base rate in February.
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| ECB interest rates are a real difficult one with differeing needs of the various countries ! |
Really? Well, who could have predicted that, say, 10 years ago?? The ECB & € were a bad idea from the beginning - doomed to fail from the moment it started
Come on, sterling!!
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