Ohhh lalaaaaaa!! Look at the dollar SOAR

[Susan2771]

What a huge jump in the Canadian dollar today!! It's at 0.802 Go baby go!!

 

[TheZue]

 

[Grayce]

Wooo Hoooo! Keep climbing baby

 

[rewok]

Wow!

 

[Hockey Mom KQ]

yay!!

 

[taycreekcropper]

The Bank of Canada is still showing 78 cents. We have 2 weeks before we go, I'm going to wait, the stock market took a climb today, so I'm willing to wait until next week to exchange some $$

 

[grover]

I need to pay my trip off by monday...I hope it goes up a wee bit more tomorrow and friday..I was going to pay it today..but maybe I should wait???

 

[CanadianImagineer]

I hear it thrives on positive encouragement GO LOONIE GO!

 

[grover]

Come on'...all together now..
go dollar go

 

[disneydreamgirl]

Oh, I'm on that bandwagon, figure I better start buying some periodically so it doesn't hurt so much come trip time...say it with me...

Loonie, Loonie, Rise, Rise, Loonie, Loonie, Be a Prize, Prize, Loonie, Loonie, a bigger Size, Size, Loonie, Loonie, Don't be Shy, Shy!!!

 

[Disney_Mama]

Figures I bought my US last week. Oh well..... I'm still going to Disney in 7days

 

[Susan2771]

Our positive thoughts are working!! I just checked and it was at 0.806

 

[BitsnBearsMom]

My morning Universal currency email had it at .8007.

 

[petunia]

 

[candielips]

I might just have to call WDW this morning & put some more money on our trip.
Come on dollar, just a little bit more

 

[CanadianImagineer]

If any Americans are reading this, we're not a bunch of Crazy Canadians, we swear!

 

[TinkerBelle_325]

XE.com is listing it as .8157! Yay!

 

[grover]

Where can we get the cash/bank rate???
It is usually a bit different than the posted rates right?

 

[Salinger]

The banks usually add about 2.5% commission to the posted rates when exchanging money.

Most banks list it on their website. Just click on "rates" and then "foreign exchange rates" and they will tell you what they will sell to you for (which is what we need) and what they will pay to buy back from you.

I think the easier way to look at the exchange rates for us travelling to Disney is looking at the value of the US $ compared to ours vs the other way around. Because that's what we're going to pay for our reservations or to buy cash.

For example, as I look at www.xe.com right now, our $ is worth 81.647 cents US. But the inverse, and more importantly for us, we pay $1.22479 CAD to buy 1 USD. Just a few days ago, that was about 1.29, so we're saving almost 7%!!!

Just in time too, our package balance is due in just over a week! Come on loonie!!

 

[braydensmom]

certainly glad that i transferred money out of my US account last week....Id like for the Canadian dollar to fall for the first week of each month, and then it can climb to 0.80 for the rest of the month