How to buy Euros

If you live outside the EuroZone and you are planning a major purchase in Europe at some point you will need to buy Euros. The good news is you can save yourself a small fortune by researching and planning the euro currency purchase ahead of time.

This Euro Currency Exchange site is designed to help you with all your currency exchange questions in connection with buying euros.

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Frequently asked questions about currency exchange for buying Euros or other currencies. Where can I buy at the best exchange rates, what will it cost, how long will it take, can I get advice, how do I pay and more...
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1. Call +44(0)1225 463752 to discuss your currency requirements

2. Request a call-back. A currency adviser will call you back at a time to suit you

3. Apply for your currency account so that you are ready to trade. No fees!

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Euro review - August 2008

Pound dodges the bullets.

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Euro Currency Update -19th August 2008 - Sterling can do nothing right

From its opening level at EUR 1.28 the Pound flared briefly before slumping to EUR 1.25. A two cent recovery ran out of steam early this Monday morning and by the time London opened it was back down to EUR 1.2650.

It was not a good week for the Pound. It started badly and got worse. As usual, the market did not find it hard to identify weaknesses in the UK economy. Picking out the good bits was more difficult. The Producer Price Index showed a slight narrowing of the gap between manufacturers' costs and the prices charged at the factory gate but the positive effects did not extend beyond the manufacturers themselves. Britain's trade deficit deteriorated. The British Retail Consortium reported high street sales falling by 1 per cent in the year to July and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said house sales were down by an unhealthy 40 per cent from a year ago. Rightmove reported that the average asking price for houses was down by 5 per cent from a year ago; forced sellers are becoming more aggressive with their pricing.

The corn-curer was Wednesday's quarterly Inflation Report from the Bank of England. It set out a dismal picture of rising inflation and unemployment together with falling activity and house prices. Presenting the report, governor Mervyn King spoke of "the biggest financial dislocation since the Second World War" and "a feeling of chill in the economic air." Stopping just short of actually mentioning the R-word Mr King said there was "bound to be... a quarter or two of negative growth." The market instantly spotted his error of omission and the Pound lost a cent before you could say "recession."

Any pretensions to its immunity from the global slowdown have been forgotten by the Euro. The European Central Bank may, even now, be regretting its decision to raise interest rates last month. According to The Guardian the Euro zone is "on the brink of recession". The Independent and The Times say it "teeters" there. Teetering or not, Euroland is three months closer to recession than Britain. The first stab at second quarter GDP growth in Britain had the economy expanding by an annual 0.2 per cent. Last week's equivalent estimate for the Euro zone saw a 0.2 per cent shrinkage. According to the usual definition, a recession is two or more successive quarters of negative growth. Assuming the final numbers for Q2 are close to their estimated levels, the Euro zone is halfway there already.

Regrettably, the main damage done to Sterling last week came not from the weakness of UK economic data nor from any insecurity posed by Russia's confrontation with Georgia; it came from yet another demoralising Bank of England report. That the Euro zone economy slowed in Q2 and Britain's didn't is beside the point. The big guns in Threadneedle Street are sufficiently nervous about the UK economic outlook to point the finger. A recovery for Sterling against the Euro is not close enough - or obvious enough - to prompt any change of the advice offered in recent months. Buyers of the Euro should hedge, fixing a rate for half their requirement and protecting the balance with a stop order at their threshold of pain.

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