Keytoss Mobile Adds 4 Travel Tools
Keytoss, our favorite mobile portal here on Symbian-Guru, has just been updated to include four new travel tools ... that uses GBP as a main currency. I always end up clueless about the exchange rates between each currency ... . The 4 tools are Flight Status, Currency Rates, Translations and Snow Conditions. Let’s go over [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 10:12:03
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Managing your business using the software
Having a lofty executive title is one thing but retaining it is completely different, one has to find a unique, yet practical strategy to use ... currencies convert into the business owner’s home currency rates at a given time [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 19:03:10
10+ survival tips on business travel to Beijing
If you’re going to spend some time working in Beijing, your experience will be much better if you know what to expect and how to prepare ... should be done only as a last resort, because the currency exchange rate there is generally less than ... will not accept a U.S. check to open an account or for currency exchange, and China bank accounts [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 22:39:58
Is the Euro the New Dollar?
By Leo Cendrowicz / Brussels Thursday, Jan. 01, 2009 A handful of euro notes Leon Neal / AFP / Getty Europe's single currency has come of ... E.U. countries locked their national currencies together into a fixed exchange rate. Three years ... from the exchange rate volatility, which has battered them in previous downturns," Barroso said on [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 21:52:00
Government Will Not Target Sterling: UK
LONDON — The government will not set a target rate for the pound, and is instead focused on targeting inflation, ... has slashed interest rates, which are a major influence on currency trading, to two percent, the lowest level ... all kinds of problems," she added. In September 1992, international currency speculators forced [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 14:38:30
Wine as an Economic Indicator
Wine as an Economic Indicator By Catherine Rampell Earlier this week I wrote about how consumers appear to be buying less expensive, but more, ... . Liv-ex, a fine wine exchange, seems to have the answer. Merchants and collectors trade bottles ... fluctuating currency exchange rates) since September. But in terms of volume, he said, almost twice [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 17:45:22
Interest Rate Risk Exposure
Interest rate exposure refers to the interest rate differential between the two countries' currencies in a foreign exchange contract ... conditions:* 2 pips spread on six currency pairs.* Providing online trading services without maintenance ... or futures contract. As a side note, arbitragers are investors that take advantage when interest [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 19:58:00
Why the Resistance?
Like its American regulator counterparts, the European Commission has been pushing major banks to form a CDS clearinghouse ... of EU-based trades must be done inside the 27-nation bloc.” Perhaps. But perhaps this is a pretext ... to interest rate and currency swaps), but I’m not fully–or even largely–convinced that this is the case [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 02:11:21
Yuan devaluation is unlikely
If you’re having problems downloading attachments, please sign in again and select “Remember me on this computer” ... cheap currencies (as in nominal exchange rate vs. purchasing power parity exchange rate) to develop [more...]
Date: 2008-12-26 08:52:30
Stiff Upper Lips and Large Rate Cuts
The positive reaction by the U.K. pound in relation to the euro, after both central banks reduced interest rates overnight, suggests a different outlook among foreign exchange investors. Among the major forex markets ... more,” says Ulrich Leuchtmann, head of forex research at Commerzbank in Frankfurt, Germany [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 15:51:31
Is Forex too Risky to Invest In?
by Alan Ruffalo Have you ever thought about exchanging foreign currency to make a profit ... % automated. Tell me it is not a great feeling to deposit some money in an account and have software ... it where there is actually money to be made, in currency exchange rates. Can you find a stock trading [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:25:54
Big Producers Demand Big Share of Shrunken Bonus Pie
Reap what you sow. Over the last 20 years, the ever-aggressive Wall Street culture has moved even further towards prizing, and paying for, ... losses, a small group of Wall Street traders on commodities, currencies and interest-rate trading desks have made huge profits for the banks that employ them. That is setting up a scramble as traders [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 04:33:16
Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings
We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 16:26:31
Live-Blogging Goldman Sachs’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings
We nominate this for the securities industry’s saddest sentence: “For the period ended Nov. 30, Goldman reported a net loss of $2 ... of long-term investing decisions…we entered into these decisions with a full understanding of fair-value implications…” 11:09: M&A, rates, currencies, commodities and asset management were [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 19:11:00
Sony: Nomura Cuts Rating On Currency, Weak TV Pricing
Nomura Securities analyst Eiichi Katayama today cut his rating on Sony (SNE) ... wrote in a research note that the downgrade reflects “downward risk from the current forex environment ... s big three consumer electronics companies,” he writes. “However, with LCD TV prices falling [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 19:01:24
Currency Trading: New Trend of Earning Easy Profit
Want to earn money even with a low investment? Then Currency Trading is perfect for you. Mr. Currency Chills with the Homies ... Forex” with the purpose of making money. The only requirement for this kind of transaction is a credit ... ). Combination of any of these pairs also works. How does FOREX operates? The currency exchange rate [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 13:46:56
Friday, 14th November 2008
Howzit Foreign currency mid-rates updated. -o00o- Think along these lines - how on earth to you calculate inflation when it stretches into 21 ... calculated the figures based on exchange rate movements and market data. In post Second World War ... figures? "The latest figures put the country's annual rate at 516 quintillion per cent - 516 [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 11:34:13
Currency Swapping: Hotter Than Wife Swapping?
OK, so the post title is idiotic (but catchy!) I can explain the former, though the latter is beyond the scope of this blog's coverage ... for a foreign currency at the prevailing exchange rate to help tide over its current FX funding needs. At an agreed date, the process is reversed, with the future exchange rate determined by the interest [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 10:56:00
U.S. Dollar Bulls Still Right, Here's Why
Those bullish on the US Dollar continue to be correct. Let's take a look at the recent news, then a few charts ... about "upside risks". "We had examined two options, one letting interest rates unchanged ... of Currency Research, GFT Forex Click Here To Play Video Borris Schlossberg: "Market is starting [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 20:05:03
Make Billions In The Forex Market By Trading Intelligently
by Rod Soto Foreign exchange market involves transactions of currencies of different countries ... of one countries currency in exchange for paying a quantity of another countries currency or between two ... . Every small and big factor from nook and corner of the world effects currency exchange rates which [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 12:37:54
REFILE-GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks up for 3rd day, yen dips
Asian stocks rose for a third day on Thursday, boosted by the prospect of more growth-supportive policies globally following interest rate cuts by ... . This has boosted currencies such as the Australian dollar and the South Korean won. Credit availability ... Reserve cut its benchmark rate to 1 percent on Wednesday to the lowest since June 2004, to [more...]
Date: 2008-10-30 05:47:27
More Grim News on the Trade Front
Reader Michael appeared to be on a mission on Saturday and sent quite a few links on trade/shipping related matters ... from currency, bunker and terminal handling surcharges. As rates slide, so they are also starting ... trading conditions are demands on lines from shippers for extended credit as the banking meltdown hits [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 08:09:41
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new global order
Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for new global order January 09, 2009 By: Freedom Fighter ... of us is managing his currency, his interest rates.” The leaders of France and Germany have differed ... or trade balance — as problems upsetting the global economy. A Congressional Budget Office report [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 06:13:05
one night only
have you ever wonder how the inside of a six-star hotel looks like ?i sure did ... to the roomentered the room; snapped a few pictures;the inside:the bedthe lamps, table etc.the bathroom ... the currency exchange rate. B$3.00=RM 7.20 . changed my mind immediately.and as always, i'm [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 14:00:00
Yen Rises as Stock Drop Boosts Currency’s Appeal as Safe Haven
By Stanley White and Ron Harui Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The yen rose against the euro and the dollar, snapping two days of losses, ... U.S. personal spending and durable goods orders dropped. The South Korean won rose on speculation ... purchases or sales of currencies to influence the exchange rate. Against the Australian dollar [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 04:14:00
South Korea: Travel and Teach
Thursday, December 18, 2008 Engilsh Teacher(Teaching in South Korea) Salary: 2.0-2.6 million Korean Won (go to http://www.xe.com/ to see the exchange rate on your currency). Monthly pay depends on education and experience. Benefits: * Good schools * FREE rou... read more [more...]
Date: 2008-12-18 21:36:10
Fed to cut rates today, but does anyone care (besides currency traders)?
It's another "Fed day" today, with the FOMC's two-day policy meeting set to wrap up later and the results to be announced at roughly 2:15 eastern ... %. But one has to wonder if that really matters. The "effective" federal funds rate, determined by actual trading ... explain or define its new strategy of quantitative easing and flooding the banking system w [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 13:15:00
UK, EU Rates Headed Downwards
As investors gradually re-acquaint themselves with risk-taking, the interest rate story is once again dominating forex markets. For the last few weeks, this meant that investors were taking advantage of record-low US interest rates to fund carry trades in riskier currencies. Most recently, however, investors have begun [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 06:20:26
Fed Preparing For Another Interest Rate Cut
With inflation concerns now being trumped by the fear of deflation, and the economy still struggling, ... Fund futures are pricing in a tiny chance of a 75bp rate cut next month. The housing market ... currency pairs have been consolidating since the middle of last week and the FOMC minutes could [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 16:38:19
Jaguar: A Cautionary Tale for Future GM/Chrysler Buyers
By John Tamny RealClearMarkets With England's economy gasping in the mid 1970s due to a combination of nosebleed rates of taxation and a currency in freefall,... This is a content summary only [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 13:17:13
AIG’s Financial Products Division
I’m fascinated by this huge article in the Washington Post called The Beautiful Machine ... up cash, get rid of debt and guard against rising interest rates or currency fluctuations [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 00:59:09
Saved by Zero
Before long, more than one nation’s financial system could be looking at the zero effect ... up seeing is the inevitability of zero interest rates,” says Kathy Lien, director of currency research [more...]
Date: 2008-11-28 09:02:00
Forecast for 2009 — Currencies, Oil, Interest Rates
My last forecast (for the year 2008) missed the real world market action significantly. The financial crisis made a lot of the forecasts made by the analysts and traders useless ... to 2%. Bank of England — ~1%. Bank of Japan — ~0.5%. Posted on Forex blog. Trade with a leading [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 15:00:37
The End of Figure Imports?
gal_killed_someone Over the past few months, the economic landslide in the entire world has caused foreign currency exchange rates to go haywire. What used to be the paradise for figure [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 07:37:36
The Global Credit Crisis as History
Barry Eichengreen, an economic historian at the University of California at Berkeley whose scholarly work showed how the international affection for ... and elsewhere , have resisted stimulative policies that might produce a falling exchange rate ... drew other lessons: “the importance of avoiding competitive currency depreciation and of keeping [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 12:00:00
Dollar soars against euro
By Julianne Pepitone CNNMoney.com contributing writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The dollar rose sharply against major currencies Monday ahead of anticipated interest rate cuts ... , the dollar was up 2.08 percent against the 15-nation euro, which was trading at $1.3617 [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 15:11:56
12 Golden points you should consider when starting your blog
A lot has been said and written about blogging over the last ten years ... . Please take note that currency conversion may vary due to changing rates. You may also try [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 09:26:11
Think Big 3 Bailout's A Good Idea? Jaguar's History Suggests It Isn't
With England's economy gasping in the mid 1970s due to a combination of nosebleed rates of taxation and a currency in freefall, the fortunes of... [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 00:28:50
Tourist arrivals to Sabah may decline in Q1
KOTA KINABALU: With the exception of the Chinese New Year holidays, ... Dollar against our currency,” he said.He added that with the current exchange rate ... Times yesterday the Korean market was already showing a slowdown in arrival statistics due [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 10:29:00
Nouriel Roubini on the endgame for Bretton Woods II
The Bretton Woods system of managed currencies unraveled in the early 1970s, leaving a decade of economic trouble in its wake ... their currency appreciation and desperately hold on BW2 - as the rate of accelerated forex accumulation [more...]
Date: 2008-07-07 15:13:29
The Complete Guide to Currency Trading & Investing: How to Earn High Rates of Return Safely and Take Control of Your Investments
Click to LOOK INSIDE ! Click to LOOK INSIDE ! ... currency for another country's currency. The foreign exchange (Currency or Forex or FX) market [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 17:10:01
Chase Behaving Badly: Unintended Consequences of the Fed's New Credit Card Rules
In late December, banking regulators agreed to new rules to limit actions by credit card issuers that consumer advocates deemed to be abusive ... not have considered is that banks might also increase rates on existing balances (to make up for lost ... of the Currency: The bank can generally change the account terms of credit cards or open-end lines [more...]
Date: 2009-01-11 02:26:47
TradeVestment : A Forex Strategy Report by Kersi Jilla of ForexMetrics.com
A Forex Strategy Report & Forex Commentaries based on Forex Metrics Currency Index, provides currency forecasts, ... FMCI Change in FMCI Economic Net Growth OP. Rates Current 6-Jan Pips % Change Growth Growth USD [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 02:04:50
TradeVestment : A Forex Strategy Report by Kersi Jilla of ForexMetrics.com
A Forex Strategy Report & Forex Commentaries based on Forex Metrics Currency Index, provides currency forecasts, ... FMCI Change in FMCI Economic Net Growth OP. Rates Current 7-Jan Pips % Change Growth Growth USD [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 02:43:39
Recession fears hit stocks
LONDON - FEARS of an ‘inevitable’ global recession prompted sharp swings on currency markets and falls on stock exchanges despite talk of new ... rate cuts in the 15-nation eurozone to spur economic growth forced the euro towards a near two-year [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 11:03:51
Strong Yen ‘Not Necessarily To Japan’s Advantage’
In case you’re wondering about the sarcasm in the title, I am paraphrasing Emperor Hirohito’s World War II surrender speech, ... that the South Korean won, the currency of Japan’s main competitor in areas such as electronic goods ... exchange rate cannot help but hurt Japan. There is another problem with the strong yen. It could tip [more...]
Date: 2008-12-17 22:26:25
Causes of Inflation
Zimbabwe Inflation Rate What could cause this hyperinflation? ... such as buying commodities, foreign currency, or treasury I-bills. Gold is one of the conventional hedges [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 00:51:14
Flee the US dollar and US Treasuries
Teo items today on the subject. The final bubble is getting ready to burst. Expect inflation and rising rates driven in the US, UK and australian cases by a falling currency ... historic lows last year. It will reignite fears about the currency's prospects, as well as sparking fears [more...]
Date: 2009-01-06 03:51:53
Reservetradeltd - Reservetradeltd.com
I'm not admin. Reserve Trade Ltd is a High Yield Investment Program, ... investment market, trading activities and investments in various funds, which gives our members ... markets, currency and gold exchange markets, we have summed up the safe profit rate for all members [more...]
Date: 2008-12-15 03:05:49
The Greatest Depression
The Greatest Depression Gordon G. Chang - 01.05.2009 - 2:09 PM “Let’s not mince words: ... . Interest rates could rise as the Treasury tries to sell the debt, and higher interest rates will slow– ... then adopted, such as driving down the value of their currency, also had the effect of closing off [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 19:09:54
