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04-06-2010, 11:14 PM #1
Looney at par
just catching cp24 at the moment and notice the looney is at 100.001 to the greenback in overseas trading today :) yay parity has been acheived again, i know i am going card shopping now :) and the great news it should be sustained for longer than a couple months.
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04-06-2010, 11:17 PM #2
Well, I guess it depends on where you work. Don't celebrate too loudly next to anyone in manufacturing.
I'm onboard though - card purchasing is getting a whole lot cheaper. Especailly if we see it push toward $1.10 (the peak a couple of years ago).
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04-06-2010, 11:17 PM #3
Ya i heard the other day they are predicting it should be at par for the rest of the year.
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04-06-2010, 11:23 PM #4
i work for the municipal government so i am going to be laughing all the way to the border eventually lol. got to go down to darien lake for a concert will make it cheaper now :) as for the manufacturers take the good with the bad i guess, this has been predicited for a while now though.
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04-07-2010, 01:15 AM #5
Love the high dollar.
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04-07-2010, 01:23 AM #6
I love the high dollar as well.
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04-07-2010, 03:03 AM #7
Who are you seeing at Darien?
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04-07-2010, 07:25 AM #8
The high dollar is a great thing since I do a lot more importing than exporting.
On the flipside of this joyous news, the NS government has announced that it's jacking up the HST by 2 points to 15%. Just the NDP being the NDP.
Habs fan and collector! Current PC's: Nick Suzuki, Cole Caufield, and Lane Hutson...., and of course...
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04-07-2010, 03:10 PM #9
NS government following Quebec's QST... 2% hike sigh. Guess we'll buy on ebay more often where they don't apply taxes yet and especially when CAD hits parity or above :)
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04-07-2010, 03:16 PM #10
seeing brooks and dunn's farewell tour there in july sitting 6th row. as for taxes ontario is implementing an hst harmonized sales tax so instead of a gst and pst, there is just going to be hst but thats bad as things we normally arent fully taxed on we will now be paying 13% on. things like food, clothes, gas (home and car) rates, needless to say nobody in ontario was in favour of it by our smart premier decided its best for us anyways in the long run go liberals!!! not
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