Archive for the 'Dollar Exchange Rate' Category

Embeddable Country Ranking Charts

Friday, February 29th, 2008

The newest feature added to the country rankings section consists of embeddable country ranking charts. Here is an example:

I’m using Google’s fantastic chart api to generate the horizontal bar chart. Note that for now you can only embed charts with up to 10 countries. The charts are available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and […]

Euro pares gains after setting record high vs. dollar

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The euro pared its gains after rising to a new record high against the dollar Tuesday, as downbeat U.S. data raised fears about the U.S. economy. The euro rose as high as $1.4985 according to a trader using the EBS electronic trading platform, $1.4982 according to Reuters data, and $1.4981 […]

Embeddable Exchange Rate Graphs

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

Starting today anyone may embed our exchange rate charts in their blog or web site. Just copy and paste the HTML displayed under each graph. Here is an example:

The code used to embed the chart above is as follows:

Obtaining a different graph is as simple as changing the values of four query string parameters:
c1: currency […]

Stop the Free Fall of the US Dollar

Friday, December 28th, 2007

In international market the only currency that is used during the trade is the United States dollars. It has been the only currency to trade since the mid 20th century. According to a survey the 40-60 % of US dollar trade that is done across the border is denominated in the United States dollars. For […]

Iranian Nuclear weapon and threat to dollar

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

The government of Iran has finally developed a nuclear weapon that is slowly going to swift out dominance of dollar in international market. The Iranian oil bourse expected to start in near future will be based in euro. This will pave the path of trading oil against euro. Once the denomination of trading […]

Danger behind the Dollar Drop

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Will current dollar drop being an end of era in forex market? Will the dollar’s dominance on world economy come to end? These are some questions that have been looming as a dark cloud on investment market. People investing in dollars have uncertain speculation over current dollar fall. There is no where to look for […]

First Solar buys Turner Renewable Energy for $34.3 million

Friday, November 30th, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (Dollar Drops) — First Solar Inc. [s:FSLR] said late Friday it acquired commercial solar project designer Turner Renewable Energy LLC for about $34.3 million in stock and cash. Turner, so named in January 2007 when Ted Turner invested in the company, will operate as a unit of First Solar under the name First […]

Landen van de wereld

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Country profiles are now available in Dutch. I’m learning Dutch very slowly so the translation definitely needs some work. Leave a comment if you are a Dutch speaker and wish to give me a hand.

Landen van de wereld

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Country profiles are now available in Dutch. I’m learning Dutch very slowly so the translation definitely needs some work. Leave a comment if you are a Dutch speaker and wish to give me a hand.

Regions of Italy

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

I just published region-level demographic data for Italy. A Spanish translation is also available.