Monday, April 01, 2002

Canadian dollar falls due to April Fools joke: I'm not saying that the Canadians are gullible or anything but according to this article, "An April Fool's Day internet report that Canadian Finance Minister Paul Martin would quit his job to breed Charolais cows and 'handsome fawn runner ducks' sent the Canadian dollar lower Monday, as the market grabbed at the straw of anything that might resemble news." (Via Techdirt.)