<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by millionmiler:
Thursday, it took about $1.17 to buy a single euro (at the interbank rate), 12 cents more than a year ago.
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I don't know how they got this (journalist can't do math?) it was EUR 1.05/USD 12 June last year compared to EUR 0.857 yesterday. Can't see where they got 12 cents from anyway i (mis)calculate it.