Jucer mi je bio najuspjesniji dan na poslu od kako sam poceo skoro prije 2 mjeseca.
Doneo sam svoj prvi account, spoj prvi deal, i to za $425000. Pricao sa zenskom par puta i bum, poslala mi deal, platili za appraisal i sve, i sada se svi cude kako sam ga upecao nakon samo kratko vremena ovdje. Sada sam zvijezda, barem na par dana. Nadalje se moram dokazat da to nije bila slucajnost. Inace ljudi ovdje rade do 6 mjeseci dok nesto znacajno ne upecaju, a average loan amount je oko $350k, pa sam ja sa 425 faca.
Sutra imamo Xmas party i vode nas na Queen Mary. Bit ce zanimljivo, nisam nikada bio, bit ce fancy, black tie event. Naravno sve je placeno. Malo se bojim voznje do Long Beacha jel ce biti pregrst small talka i awkward sutnje, no zato postoji alkosh.
Dolar opet stoji lose, prilozen je clanak za vas Europljane/balkance (kako god preferirate), koji se dvoume oko dolaska ove zime.
Pozdrav i dobit cete izvjesce sa broda uskoro!
B.S
For Europeans, America is now a vast shopping mall
By Neil Craven and Jennifer Sudick
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Heather Weir of Dublin said she could not talk for long last Tuesday as she stood at the crossroads of magic, music and video games at the FAO Schwarz store in New York. She was on a bargain tear down Fifth Avenue.
A visit with her sister became a whirlwind shopping spree when the euro rose to a 20-month high against the dollar. Weir spent more than €1,000, or $1,330, on everything from Skechers sneakers to Bobbi Brown cosmetics and Yankee-brand candles in a week. She bought $550 worth of jewelry at Tiffany.
"I wouldn't go mad at home like I did here," said Weir, 26. "You get two times as much as you get for that price at home."
Europeans are flocking to the United States to do their Christmas shopping as the dollar falls on investor expectations that Europe's central banks will raise interest rates while the Federal Reserve cuts U.S. borrowing costs. The pound traded for more than $1.98 on Friday, a rate not seen since 1992.
FAO Schwarz, a toy store known for its luxury products, will open its Fifth Avenue store early for people with international passports on the three Tuesdays before Christmas. The chief executive, Ed Schmults, said he was prompted to make the offer after an English guidebook advised people to skip FAO during the holidays because it was so crowded.
"The pound is very strong so there's a lot of people who feel U.S. shopping is a bargain," Schmults said.
The pound last week touched the highest level since Sept. 10, 1992, when speculators led by the billionaire George Soros drove the currency out of Europe's system of linked exchange rates. It has gained 15 percent this year and traded at $1.9816 last Friday.
The euro rose to a high of $1.3367 Monday and was trading at $1.3327 on Tuesday. The currency shared by 12 countries has risen 12.5 percent against the dollar this year.
Some people who live in Europe and are going to the United States for the holidays are shopping on U.S. Internet sites like Amazon.com before they travel.
"I've already started shopping on Amazon using a euro credit card," said Geni Mermoud, who lives just west of Paris. She's having books, CDs and DVDs delivered to her mother's house in Birmingham, Alabama, where she will fly on Dec. 22.
The trans-Atlantic shopping push is a reversal of 1985, when the pound dropped to $1.0520, prompting U.S. consumers to flock to London to buy Wedgwood English china and shop at Hamleys, which calls itself the biggest toy store in the world.
Harrods, a London fixture and luxury department store, said it was not concerned about the pound's strength. "Are we going to lose out because people are heading to America?" said Peter Willasey, a Harrods spokesman. "Certainly not."
British shoppers like the Birds may only be the first wave. The New York tourist board, NYC & Co., predicts that the number of international visitors to New York will rise to 7.3 million people this year from 4.8 million in 2003.
Virgin Atlantic Airways bookings to New York from London have risen at least 20 percent compared with a year earlier.
"The fact that a currency can swing by a few cents does make a big difference, especially in this case as the pound gets closer to that magic $2 mark," said Paul Charles, a Virgin Atlantic spokesman.
U.S. retail sales growth in the week after Thanksgiving fell to 3.1 percent, the slowest rate in four years, as consumers delayed holiday purchases to wait for discounts, Bloomberg News reported from New York.
A longer shopping period between Thanksgiving and Christmas contributed to consumers' delays, the International Council of Shopping Centers and UBS Securities said Tuesday.