‘Flight to safety’ and natty little phrases like it are bandied around frequently as a useful way of deflecting a question and as a means of not having to justify, at least at any micro level, what has caused a currency to move in a particular direction. Remember that FX dealers generally have no formal qualifications or ongoing regulatory oversight when it comes to whats in their heads. They are not chartered analysts and do not hold diplomas that grant them any authority wh

A touch of whimsy to bolster not only your global financial education, but also your dinner party trivia! Yes - we are rocking Geek Chic with this post, but someone has to own it. + ANG - Netherlands Antilles Guilder + The Netherlands Antillean guilder (Dutch: gulden) is the currency of Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which until 2010 formed the Netherlands Antilles along with Bonaire, Saba, and Sint Eustatius. It is subdivided into 100 cents. Like many Caribbean currencies, t

Preliminary research will inform you that in order to buy property, whether residential, investment or commercial, you must have a permit/license and be compliant. Swiss regions are known as 'cantons' and each has its own rule about foreigners and their ability to legitimately buy property. Broadly though, if you already live in Switzerland and have a permit so to do as well as being an EU national, or you hold a Swiss C Permit (permanent residence permit), you can buy prope

‘Flight to safety’ and natty little phrases like it are bandied around frequently as a useful way of deflecting a question and as a means of not having to justify, at least at any micro level, what has caused a currency to move in the particular direction. Remember that FX dealers generally have no formal qualifications or qualified regulatory oversight when it comes to whats in their heads. They are not chartered analysts and do not hold diplomas that grant them any authori