Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: May 21, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY CURRENCY May. 14 May. 15 May. 16 May. 17 May. 18
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9998 0.9977 0.9933 0.9925 0.9819
BRAZIL REAL 1.9884 1.9935 2.0000 1.9940 2.0190
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0018 1.0029 1.0099 1.0162 1.0211
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3210 6.3176 6.3227 6.3247 6.3245
DENMARK KRONE 5.7861 5.8210 5.8390 5.8474 5.8423
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2847 1.2769 1.2730 1.2709 1.2721
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7663 7.7682 7.7686 7.7699 7.7673
INDIA RUPEE 53.9200 53.9100 54.3400 54.3700 54.4800
JAPAN YEN 79.8300 80.0900 80.3200 79.2600 79.1400
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0820 3.0885 3.1143 3.1168 3.1350
MEXICO PESO 13.6663 13.7332 13.8078 13.7890 13.8275
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7798 0.7725 0.7660 0.7657 0.7542
NORWAY KRONE 5.9222 5.9802 5.9634 5.9816 5.9955
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2558 1.2588 1.2667 1.2664 1.2749
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.1667 8.2751 8.2910 8.3101 8.3417
SOUTH KOREA WON 1153.5000 1156.1000 1166.2500 1165.7500 1170.0000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 128.5600 128.8900 128.6000 128.8400 129.6400
SWEDEN KRONA 7.0303 7.1303 7.1545 7.1988 7.1841
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9349 0.9405 0.9435 0.9450 0.9442
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.5500 29.5500 29.6300 29.5600 29.5600
THAILAND BAHT 31.3500 31.3300 31.3600 31.3200 31.3100
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6116 1.6025 1.5933 1.5823 1.5788
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.4920 100.7681 101.1631 101.2026 101.3795
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.6019 73.9054 74.2344 74.2994 74.3911
3) OITP JAN97=100 129.6726 129.8844 130.3374 130.3372 130.6194
ND = No data for this date.

For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "Indexes of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-8 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The most recent annual revision of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect with the May 2010 release of this report. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg L.P.

* U.S. dollars per currency unit.

1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.

The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-area currencies. These currency rates can be derived from the dollar/euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies per euro) given below:

1 EURO

  • = 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS
  • = 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS
  • = .585274 CYPRUS POUND
  • = 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
  • = 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
  • = 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
  • = 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
  • = 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
  • = .787564 IRISH POUNDS
  • = 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
  • = 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
  • = .429300 MALTESE LIRA
  • = 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
  • = 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
  • = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
  • = 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
  • = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR
Last update: May 21, 2012