{"id":54,"date":"2008-09-04T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgoodchild.net\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2011-06-08T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T17:44:05","slug":"strike-while-the-currency-is-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgoodchild.me\/blog\/strike-while-the-currency-is-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike while the currency is hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s living in Japan and changing their hard-earned yen into foreign currency would be prudent to take a quick look at the state of the currency market at the moment.\u00a0 Not always the easiest topic to explain, but if you&#8217;re converting to GBP, or Aussie dollar, Euro &#8230; then now is a decent time to consider doing so if you&#8217;ve been saving up your yen for just such a time as this.<\/p>\n<p>Taking GBP as the example, take a look at the following chart: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/currency-converter\/?from=GBP&amp;to=JPY&amp;amt=1&amp;t=2y#from=GBP;to=JPY;amt=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, 1 pound is worth approximately 192 yen.\u00a0 This is easily the cheapest the pound has been in about 3 years.\u00a0 It may go further down, or it may start to recover&#8230; who knows?\u00a0 Compared to June 2007 when it was 250 yen, it&#8217;s a great deal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not advocating action one way or the other&#8230; whatever you do or do not do, it&#8217;s your call &lt;- that&#8217;s my disclaimer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who&#8217;s living in Japan and changing their hard-earned yen into foreign currency would be prudent to take a quick look at the state of the currency market at the moment.\u00a0 Not always the easiest topic to explain, but if you&#8217;re converting to GBP, or Aussie dollar, Euro &#8230; then now is a decent time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[525,10],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cat-manage-your-money","tag-cat-manage-your-money","tag-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Strike while the currency is hot! 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