Moomin Valley

I transferred USD 1,000 from Interactive Brokers to the HSBC Everyday Global Account . I was surprised to find that they converted it to Aus...

Back at the beginning of 2021 I opened an HSBC account for Moominmama because Plus 500 refused to send money to an account in our joint name...

 I took a more granular look at currency exposures: So, actually I still have less than 50% exposure to the Australian Dollar. This probab...

Since October 2018 when we nominally received the inheritance, the total allocated to cash, futures, gold, and bonds has remained fairly c...

My brother is planning sending me my share of the proceeds of selling my mother's apartment. If we sent the money in Falafeland curre...

If you move money to Interactive Brokers through the American banking system, they put a hold on your money so that you can't withdraw i...

Moves this big never happen in currencies. It's like one month's worth of moves in 5 minutes. Yen did the same thing in the other...

The Australian Dollar tends to be high relative to the American Dollar during economic booms and low during economic crises. The recent lo...

Snork Maiden wants to give money to her parents in China to help them out with medical bills. I've been telling her that all I need is b...

Sydney is the 7th most expensive city in the world to live in and 50% more expensive than New York. As Melbourne is 8th, I'm sure Canbe...

With all the talk about the U.S. credit rating possibly being lowered to AA from AAA due to the debt ceiling debate debacle, I was wondering...

I did a wire transfer of AUD 10,000 from my Australian to my US HSBC bank account. The exchange rate turned out as USD 0.9808 per Australian...

As I mentioned I just got paid out $A7,500 or so from EAIT. With that and my next paycheck I'm going to buy $10,000 worth of US Dollars...

I've recently done two small consultancies - one for an agency of the Cyprus government and one for a US government agency. The Cyprus p...

In the ongoing Everest Financial saga, the "direct investments" in the EAIT fund of hedge funds is being separated out into a stan...

Challenger Infrastructure Fund (CIF.AX) announced today that it has closed its foreign currency hedges yielding a profit. As it is now unhed...

Our currency allocation is getting really out of whack as the Australian Dollar rises and Australian shares perform well and we spend USD. W...

We were told that there would be a 21 day hold on the proceeds of the U.S. cheque we deposited. But today (the first time I checked) the Co...

We received a check for just over $US3,000 for Snork Maiden's costs getting to and attending the conference in China in October. I'd...

It's commonly believed that there is a strong relationship between the Australian Dollar and gold. But is this true? I computed the mont...