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United Kingdom

Pound

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United States

Dollar

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Second in importance only to the U.S. dollar is the euro. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago provides several euro-related links on their "Euro Resource Page" at

www.chicagofed.org/ , consumerinformation.

Work the Web

You just returned from your dream vacation to Jamaica and feel rich since you have 10,000 Jamaican dollars left over. You now need to convert this to U.S. dollars. How much will you have? You can look up the current exchange rate and do the conversion yourself, or simply work the Web. We went to www.xe.com and used the currency converter on the site to find out. This is what we found.