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Similarly, in Japan, the traditional wedding gift of cash should not be given in bills divisible by two: that signifies the marriage could end in divorce. A gift of 20,000 yen, for example, should be given with one 10,000 yen and two 5,000 yen notes —but not two bills of 10,000...
For example, directly transferring currency from Japan to Nicaragua means turning Yen into Cordobas, which is generally not feasible.The reason is that Japanese banks don’t usually hold accounts denominated in Cordobas because there’s not a lot of demand for them. However, both Japanese and ...
market. A lot of it has to do more with the central bankers and everything they try to do to discredit gold as an asset class, at the same time try to keep interest rates low to keep economic activity going strong. That’s been a much different factor in driving the price of gold...
My Financial Times article got a lot more response than I would have expected. Some of it was in other news sources, as in thisCNNreport, but there were also a lot of private responses, suggesting that a larger number of people out there than I had expected were thinking along the same...
aEvery year many foreign tourist travel to Japan ,and they often find that only a few people in Japan can speak Envlish Before you buy your ticket to Japan ,you should know that Japan is an expensive place to travel The cost of living is very high You should have at least 5000yen per...
we can blame ouraddictionto international travel simply on a stressful life. Yes I have a lot of things to juggle and it's a fine balancing act managing my part-time job, my degree and my social life to a perfect level. But really I think we are the first generation in a truly open...
I broke down in frustration at the Shinbamba station McDonald's near Shinagawa a few years back and said “Fine, give me chicken McNuggets, and hold the nuggets,” and paid 249 yen for two BBQ sauce packets. I have not been back to McDonald's in Japan since. I don’t blame the ...
Although one British pound is worth a little less than one and a half U.S. dollars in 2024, it used to be worth a lot more. Britain had a global empire in 1900, and the British pound was worth almost five times as much as the U.S. dollar.1World War I, World War II, and the...
based on sheer volume. All trades are in large volumes, with a standard minimum lot of 100,000.15Most currency traders are professionals investing for themselves or for institutional clients that include banks and large corporations