Category Archives: euro

Today’s Best Euro Rates

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Our historic Euro currency graph will help you find the Best Euro Rate to Ensure you buy your Euro travel money at the best Euro rate available online. In addition, If you need to sell Euros at the very best rates you will find a list of today's live up to date best Euro exchange rates for International money transfers Today's Best Euro Rates (Travel Money)   Pound to Euro [insert_php]$currency="EUR";include "../live_holiday.php";[/insert_php]   Today's Best Euro Rates for International Read more

Are Brits Heading for a 2017 Staycation due to the Weak Pound?

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  Article 50 has been triggered, and unless the UK undergoes a drastic change of leadership following the June 8th General Election, Brexit will become a reality. Many Britons are already feeling the effects of the UK’s departure from the EU thanks to the falling value of the pound against such global currencies as the Euro and the US dollar, but what impact is that having on our day-to-day spending habits? The value of the British pound has dropped roughly 15% lower than that of the US Read more

Avoid Airports if you Want to get the Best Euro Rate

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Click and Collect, euro, Europe
Only a couple of months ago we warned in a blog post Don’t Buy Your Euros at Cardiff Airport Following an investigation by Caxton fx on the Euro rates offered at two airports on Tuesday of this week , we can add Luton and Stanstead to the list of the worst Airports to buy Euros if not ordering them via click and collect. Caxton fx found that both Ice  (Luton Airport) and Moneycorp (Stanstead Airport) were offering a rate of below parity. Ice were offering 0.990 Euros to the Pound and Moneycorp Read more

Brexit Fears – Euro Gains 4%, US Dollar 2% Against the Pound.

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Economic News, euro, USA
GB Pound After making solid gains sterling lost 4%  against the euro and 2%  against the US dollar last week as the latest opinion polls show the “Brexit” camp is now in the lead. The cost of insuring against sterling volatility reached its highest point in the last seven years, such levels of volatility have not been seen since 2008 with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. This would suggest traders and investors are looking to insulate themselves if the pound plummets after the EU referendum Read more

Sterling Undervalued as a Result of the Upcoming Referendum

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Australia, Economic News, euro, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, Overseas, USA
  GB Pound Sterling continued its good run of form last week making solid gains against the euro and US dollar after an opinion poll showed a strong lead for the ‘Bremain’ camp. Despite the UK missing its second quarter GDP forecast, showing growth of 2% against the estimated 2.1%, the reaction was muted and did not stop sterling delivering gains of 1.7% and 1.0% against the euro and dollar respectively. The bank holiday caused a slow start to the week for the UK however, with many experts Read more

Holiday Money Exchange Rates – Historic Euro

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Find Today's Holiday Money Exchange Rates including the last three months historic Pound to Euro Holiday money rates. On the graph, hover over the data point  in order to view the exact day, date, and holiday money rate for that day collected by our intelligent robot. On a daily basis our in house built robot checks the rates from all our travel money brokers  then pulls the best rate for that day and displays it in the historic graph below.  Today's Best Euro Rate is collected every five Read more

Best Place to Buy Euros at Best Rate

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Click and Collect, euro, Home Delivery, Travel Money Card
By far the Best Place to Buy Euros at the very best Pound to Euro rate can be found online. The reason for this is there are many small independent online only travel money brokers who have lower overheads due to them not having to fund multiple retail outlets. They operate from perhaps small office spaces using a website as their online shop. This gives them an advantage over the multi outlet big brand holiday money brokers which allows them to trade with minimal costs and pass this saving on to Read more

International Currency Exchange ICE bought by HNA Group

Ice - International Currency Exchange
euro, Europe, Overseas
ICE International Currency Exchange has been bought by Chinese conglomerate HNA Group for an undisclosed sum. London based ICE was founded in 1973 and is one of the worlds largest travel money and overseas money transfer providers with a network of over 350 branches and bureaux in 70 airports and multiple other locations in 19 countries. The owners of ICE, Lenlyn Holdings Limited , has a turnover  in excess of 1 billion pounds in currency annually. HNA Tourism will take over the running of the Read more

Don’t Buy Your Euros at Cardiff Airport – Shock Report

euro, Europe
I came across a news story this morning that contained some shocking research carried out  by travel money broker Fairfx. Their findings show that Cardiff Airport is the worst place to buy Euros  and at Heathrow Airport the rates offered varied from terminal to terminal. These rates were collected on Tuesday 12th April by Fairfx. Cardiff Airport Euro rate offered by ForExchange bought 0.93 Euros and the US Dollar Rate  bought 1.06 US Dollars. The Top Euro Travel Money Broker Listed on Our Read more

The Post Office Euro Sale Non Event

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euro, Europe, Post Office, USA
  Nothing to see here....move along.... Once again the Post Office announces one of it's frequent spectacular flash travel money sales starting today 9th March ending Friday 11th March. The currencies on special offer are the Euro and the US Dollar. Here are some Post Office stats taken from our Travel Money comparison table. Exchanging £500 into Euros buys you 633 Euros and USA Dollars for the same amount buys you 695.20 Dollars. The Post Office lies in second place in our table for both Read more