Euro/Dollar Question
 

Is the Euro stronger than the dollar? If so how long has it been that way?

Yes and I don't know how long!

USD vs. major currencies for last 4 years, courtesy Yahoo Finance. The one you're looking for is EURUSD.
http://www.hhole.com/bushdollar.gif
Source

Thank you

It falls over 4 years. Euro used to be weaker than dollar. Now its approximately 1.33:1

I already moved most of my traffic to the european sponsors.

That's just the relative performance of $/Euro vs $/GBP etc with Jan 01 being used as the base.

If memory serves I think the $/Euro was launched at 1.18 in Jan '99 and went to approx 0.80 by '02 and then back to 1.00 (ie parity) in mid/late 02 and up to 1.3 now.

It sucks if you get paid in dollars and live in europe. It was great when the euro came but nowadays it is totally crap, hope it will get any better soon allthough I doubt it.

From This Balance:
U.S. Dollar Balance
Amount:
$650.00 USD
Exchange Rate:
1 U.S. Dollar = 0.761085 Euros
Gross Amount:
?494.70 EUR

Fuck it!

Here's the relative strength graph since '99:

http://www.hhole.com/since99.gif

Still, what he was asking is 'how strong' it was vs. the dollar, and a large part of strength is current trend. Over the last 4 years, the trend of the euro is strong vs. the USD (static-to-modest growth vs. other world currencies). A wise investor would take note that while some of euro's growth is due to solid fiscals on europe's part, it's also due to pisspoor performance of the greenback.

Here's a graph of euro's performance vs. world currencies:

http://www.hhole.com/euro99.gif

Solution....
Multi language sites!!!
But it is a bitch getting a bank account outside of north america... even if you are in the european country you want an account in.

I think you mean merchant account

Solution: Verotel Multi-Currency

I'm sorry but:

"Where the fuck have you been the last couple of years?!"

No I mean Bank Account.
There are enough online credit processors that it's not a worry.
But getting some place to put your money can be a bitch.