How do I get the best exchange rate when I have Canadian dollars in hand and want to make a large payment in US dollars? I'm in Toronto and the recipient is not flexible with regards to payment methods so I need to end up with a certified cheque or bank draft to send. [more inside]
posted by winston on Sep 1, 2009 - 6 answers

Canadian who wants to open a high-interest savings account at a US bank, in USD - which bank? [more inside]
posted by Penelope on May 23, 2009 - 8 answers

Please help me calculate the risks and likelyhoods of the Euro rising or falling against the Australian Dollar in the next twelve months. [more inside]
posted by kandinski on Mar 4, 2009 - 8 answers

Who will tell me when the Canadian dollar rises again? [more inside]
posted by awenner on Jan 2, 2009 - 7 answers

Where should I keep my money (to protect it from the US economy)? I'm American and it's in US$, but I don't live there and don't have any good reason to keep it there. [more inside]
posted by xanthippe on Oct 7, 2008 - 10 answers

Is there a finance website that can plot historical and current graphs of a stock price in a currency other than that of its local exchange, e.g. the stock price of IBM in USD multiplied by the (moving, not current!) EUR:USD exchange rate? If this is easy to do on Google or Yahoo Finance then I'm obviously missing something!
posted by caek on Feb 11, 2008 - 3 answers

Is there such a thing as a currency-neutral measure of the price of a commodity? [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Nov 7, 2007 - 15 answers

I keep all my savings in a Citibank e-savings account, which is like a regular savings account, only with a higher interest rate. Recently, the dollar has totally been tanking, and this trend doesn't show any signs of reversing. What's the easiest, safest, most profitable way for me to save my money in euros instead of dollars? [more inside]
posted by Afroblanco on Nov 2, 2007 - 29 answers

What are some good books and other resources that could help me understand, to the point of allowing me to engage in reasonably intelligent debate, macroeconomics and financial markets? [more inside]
posted by shivohum on Dec 4, 2006 - 13 answers

I have a not-insignificant amount of Polish zlotych. Help me figure out if and how I can exchange it... [more inside]
posted by deafmute on Jan 24, 2006 - 7 answers

The American administration is ratcheting up the rhetoric again about North Korea. Hostilities may or may not break out, of course, but if they do, what happens to the value of the South Korean currency? [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Jun 2, 2005 - 20 answers

This week, apparantly, the financial movers and shakers in the US have "toughened up" their demand for China to let their currency float with respect to the US dollar, saying, among other things, “Failure to move on the renminbi means China is also not doing its fair share in reducing global payments imbalance" If their fixed exchange rate is the reason for China's enormous growth, what reason would they have to oblige? [more inside]
posted by Popular Ethics on May 9, 2005 - 13 answers