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CBS News 2 days ago Storm Éowyn slams Ireland, parts of U.K. with record winds. Ireland's national weather service says the country has seen 114 mph wind gusts, the highest ever recorded on the ...
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When Australia was part of the fixed-exchange sterling area, the exchange rate of the Australian dollar was fixed to the pound sterling at a rate of A$1 = 8 U.K. shillings (A$2.50 = UK£1). In 1967, Australia effectively left the sterling area, when the pound sterling was devalued against the US dollar and the Australian dollar did not follow.
In 1949, when the United Kingdom devalued sterling against the US dollar, Australian Prime Minister and Treasurer Ben Chifley followed suit so the Australian pound would not become over-valued in sterling zone countries with which Australia did most of its external trade at the time. As one pound sterling went from US$4.03 to US$2.80, the ...
The UK abandoned the old penny on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971, when one pound sterling became divided into 100 new pence. This was a change from the system used in the earlier wave of decimalisations in Australia, New Zealand , Rhodesia and South Africa , in which the pound was replaced with a new major currency called either the "dollar" or ...
Sterling has seen a firm bid on the news although it remains within a broader range. UK PM Johnson’s motion to hold an election in December passed on Tuesday. Sterling has seen a firm bid on the ...
The company publishes the morning daily tabloid Herald Sun, which was created in 1990 from a merger of the company's morning tabloid paper, The Sun News-Pictorial, with its afternoon broadsheet paper, The Herald. The Herald had a 150-year history, and The Sun News-Pictorial a 68-year history, in Melbourne. The HWT had bought The Sun News ...