Euro (€) Currency Thread

verona_2

What's the bet the pound will tumble now that Mervyn King has verbally attacked the Chancellor's economic policy and saying that he is more uncertain than ever about an economic recovery. Great:mad:

rafter_2

1.168 at minute, should go up now as im off on hols in just under 2 weeks, so I just bit the bullet and ordered from crown at 1.1632 as its the cut-off point for me.

inspector_monkfish

verona wrote: »

What's the bet the pound will tumble now that Mervyn King has verbally attacked the Chancellor's economic policy and saying that he is more uncertain than ever about an economic recovery. Great:mad:

indeed it has!!

1.1685 against EUR
1.6305 against USD

inspector_monkfish

1.1705 trading

Eager_Saver

1.17286 trading this morning

inspector_monkfish

1.1710 trading

leew

Doshwaster wrote: »

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-travel-money#topcards

Nationwide don't charge fees for withdrawing money abroad (£2.50 - £3.00) with other banks nor load the exchange rate in Europe (usually 2.75% elsewhere)

So, if you were to withdraw €100 on a normal card at an exchange rate of 1.1 it would cost you

100 / (1.1 * (1-0.0275)) + 3 = £96.48

with Nationwide

100 / 1.1 = £90.91

so a saving of £5.57!

I'm going away in 10 days and applied for my Nationwide account last week (no idea why I've never thought of it before - but those £5s must have added up over the years). I just hope it is opened in time. I'm going to keep my main bank account and only transfer my estimated spending money onto the Nationwide account. That way I am unfortunate enough to have the card stolen or cloned then it limits the amount I can lose and doesn't give the baddies access to my main account.

Thanks, yeah it makes sense to open up an account just for this perk! I already have a Nationwide account so i'm covered here!

Going to get a £100 in Euros from Tesco's tho while i do some shopping, be selling Cars next in the car park! :rotfl:

inspector_monkfish

1.1740 trading

Mwesty

1.1807 Trading...

inspector_monkfish

morning

gbp/eur trading at 1.1775