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To: Condor who wrote (61818)	10/22/2008 8:48:00 AM
From: tyc:>	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78410

It's strange how often our thinking is at opposites. Unless you believe in selling low and buying high, it would be wrong to buy US securities with Canadian dollars now. To the contrary, this could be a good time to sell US securities and buy Canadian using the inflated US$ proceeds.

To: Condor who wrote (61818)	10/22/2008 1:12:21 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78410

Strikes me the other way - with canuck-listed resource plays whacked so hard by a double or triple whammy or whatever this is, i'd be more inclined to bid on them, in the purely theoretical case in which there were funds with which to do so Loonie off three per cent this morning, wow that's near twenty per cent in a month ... president of the Whatcom county chamber of commerce was on radio this morning, says times are real tough in Bellingham ... no doubt Today is the deadline for settlement of Lehman default risk swaps? ... wonder how that's going, inconceivable notional values, much of it nets out even but enough to bury the planet in hundred-dollar bills doesn't