[Ancienne Alliance]

Good news !

Just happened to check out the exchange rate and this just hit me after my firts coffee : The US Dollar went up !!!

€ 1 Euro = $ 1.39

This should help you people living in America with your European purchases; UK or France.

Just to give you an example, a few months ago you had to pay $374 for a €200 kilt.

Now you pay $278 instead of $374 ! Almost $100 difference !


Good shopping !


Robert

[Colonel MacNeal]

May she continue to rise -
at least until my trip to Europe later this month is over.

Cheers, ColMac

[ForresterModern]

I am not sure how much of a change has actually occurred recently. My family and I were in Paris last month and the exchange rate was just about what it is right now, 1 euro = 1.4 USD. It certainly has not changed much in the USD vs GBP either, as both have been hovering at about the 1.65:1 range for several weeks now.

[ForresterModern]

Actually the USD has gotten weaker against the euro over the last two months.

May 1, 2009 1 euro = 1.32 USD
Today 1 euro = 1.40 USD

according to historical data from xe.com.


It was doing well against the GBP a couple months ago, getting under 1gbp=1.4 USD for several weeks, but it is now back up to 1gbp= 1.65USD. Not back to the 1:2 ratios of this time last year but still on the slow climbing return (or slow declining dollar).

Sorry to burst everyone's bubble.

[Edmund L Green]

thank god! those pints of ciders add up out there on the economy!. i remember when i first came to germany with the army in 08, pulling out twenty euros cost 37 u.s. dollars.