Exchange rates £ & €

[rosierrosierrosier]

Can somebody explain to me how the British £ has been in regards to the € over the last year or so and what we can expect in the next year or two?

I was shocked to see the £ valued at 1.18 Euro today, how long has it been so low?

[DadDadDad]

History? Plenty of websites out there, eg: uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=GBPEUR=X&t=5y&l=on&z=l&q=l&c=

Future? Presumably, all the people who have the answer to that are out making (or losing) a fortune on the currency market...

Maybe it will bounce back - after all it's just hit a massive low following a shock. Maybe it will get worse as the concerns fail to be addressed. Pound could fall if BoE cut interest rates. Is that likely?

[Hensintheskirting]

You were shocked to see that the pound has fallen against the euro? Did you hear about the referendum at all?

[rosierrosierrosier]

Oh yes I Hensin. In actual fact I was just trying to calculate what kind of property I might be able to afford in my home country should the UK decide to kick my family out after decades of being settled here. Sadly, with the £ so low, our choices are more limited. The value of the £ never mattered much to me before as it was strong, I would like to understand just how much it has fallen over the last 6-12 months and the since the brexit the vote.

[scaryteacher]

It's been up and down over the past few years; it was 1.2 about 2 years ago I think. We live in Belgium, so we keep an eye on it for transferring money back to the UK.

[YerAWizardHarry]

I got around 1.27 this time last year, I got 1.17 last week

[paap1975]

Don't know if this will work: www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=EUR&view=1Y
If not, the site I use is xe dot com and then I look at historical currency rates. You can definitely spot when the referendum was!

[rosierrosierrosier]

Thank you.

[Mistigri]

It's interesting that the euro hasn't weakened much against the dollar. I was expecting it to fall more (I admit to some self-interest here, as DH is paid in US$ and we live in the eurozone).

Suggests that the markets aren't buying the leave campaign's "end times" scenario for the euro/ the EU.

[MrsMaybeMaybenot]

mhm that's interesting Mist

[sorenofthejnaii]

I was looking at a holiday a few months ago. I could have got 1.40 euros to the £.

The Euro crisis was helping the pound.