That's about $6 at the present exchange rate, although the London Underground's Oyster card system eases the "Oy" by offering significant discounts.
At present exchange rates, linking the peso in equal parts to the two currencies would reduce its value 5.8percentto to 94.2 American cents.
At the present exchange rate of about 7.8 to the United States dollar, Hong Kong is the world's most expensive city to live in, even surpassing Tokyo and Osaka, according to a study released in July by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.
When the National Lottery made its first significant donation to the arts -- a lump sum for the renovation of the Royal Opera House in 1995 amounting to $138 million at present exchange rates -- there were outraged cries of "money for the toffs" in the tabloids, and television coverage included token quotes from homeless men.
On a tour of Worcester, the heir to the throne made the payment of 453 pounds and three shillings, about $900 at present exchange rates, to settle a bill run up by King Charles II in preparation for what turned out to be a losing battle between his forces and Oliver Cromwell's.
Such has been the demand, the Bookseller reported this week, that the country singer has opened a British office, joking that if she had to keep "shipping money" at the present exchange rate, "I would have to change the name of [her theme park] Dollywood to Dollywas".
He said he envisions the smartphone side of the game company to become a 100 billion yen business — short of a billion at the present exchange rate, but why not round up?
The Yeltsin Administration's budget submitted to the lower house of parliament, or Duma, last week would give science 11 billion rubles next year, at the present exchange rate about $520 million.
The price seems better if you swap the dollar sign in for the pound, but if you (or the seller) insist on following present exchange rates, it costs $13 million.
One day, probably sooner rather than later, there will be a nationwide computerized system that, with luck, will preserve the present exchange auction system, which allows customer orders to meet within the spread.
As an early miner of bitcoins, Nakamoto is also sitting on about 1 million bitcoins, worth more than $400 million at present exchange rates, according to bitcoin expert Sergio Demian Lerner.
