Key Currency Exchange Rates for Friday, 12/08/17

So many designers hate talking about money, especially with their clients and prospects, which makes pricing one of the most dreaded aspects of being self-employed. I think that’s why so many designers resign themselves to pricing their services by the hour, and that is truly a tragedy. I get it. Pricing hourly is easy. All you have to do is track your time, multiply and submit an invoice.

Oil rose on Wednesday, supported by strong demand for gasoline, but rising output from OPEC producers revived concerns about a persistent overhang of excess crude. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 21 cents at $49.05 a barrel by 1204 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures CLc1 were up 14 cents at $46.50 a barrel. While U.S. crude stocks rose by 1.6 million barrels to 497.2 million barrels in the week to July 14, gasoline stocks fell by a whopping 5.4 million barrels, the American Petroleum Institute said on Tuesday.

American Dollar to Canadian Dollar = 0.739167; American Dollar to Chinese Yuan = 0.145198; American Dollar to Euro = 1.098098; American Dollar to Japanese Yen = 0.007472; American Dollar to Mexican Peso = 0.055583.