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Canadian Dollar now matches the US dollar
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| Akridrot |
Well, congratulations Canada, looks like you might match us before the end of this year and even surpass us. The United States continues to fail more and more. :(
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Ever since the Canadian dollar bottomed out at 61.79 cents US on Jan. 21, 2002, it has been on a seemingly unstoppable charge higher.
Driven by surging commodity prices, a healthy economy and rising interest rates, the loonie's value has risen by almost 60 per cent in five years.
On Sept. 18, 2007, the dollar surged past the level of 98 cents US. It hasn't been worth that much since February 1977. [...More in link] |
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/economy/loonie.html
Lol @ books being US 5.99 / $8.99 CAN |
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| Algenis |
| The AMERO is coming. :eyespop: |
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| justin |
| i was under the impression that Canadian currency value has always been higher than US. |
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| Oreoh142 |
| quote: | Originally posted by justin
i was under the impression that Canadian currency value has always been higher than US. | .....damn where have you been..seriously go to a book store sometime and look at the back |
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| nchs09 |
ing dollar piece of . for 140 dollars i would get only 100 euros.
last year when i went it was less , 130 for 100 euros. |
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| infinity HiGH |
time to start another war?
ps. it's not THAT great for Canada. Over 80% of our exports goes to the States. |
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| Marc Summers |
| aaaaaaaaaaanarchyyyyy |
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| placebo |
time to invade canada.
canada is awesome though. |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by Akridrot
Lol @ books being US 5.99 / $8.99 CAN |
haha i've long had a half-baked plan to make money off of that somehow |
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| malek |
| its now 99.049 cents on the chingchong markets. |
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