Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: March 1, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in FEBRUARY 2012 together with comparable figures for other months. Averages are based on daily noon buying rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

COUNTRY CURRENCY February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 February 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0732 1.0415 1.0122 1.0084
BRAZIL REAL 1.7168 1.7850 1.8391 1.6664
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9967 1.0130 1.0235 0.9876
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2997 6.3172 6.3482 6.5761
DENMARK KRONE 5.6156 5.7599 5.6521 5.4596
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3238 1.2910 1.3155 1.3656
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7544 7.7622 7.7767 7.7895
INDIA RUPEE 49.1812 51.0015 52.3824 45.3795
JAPAN YEN 78.4700 76.9640 77.7967 82.5368
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0220 3.1092 3.1590 3.0453
MEXICO PESO 12.7833 13.3829 13.7746 12.0649
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8349 0.8015 0.7699 0.7620
NORWAY KRONE 5.7097 5.9424 5.8912 5.7319
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2535 1.2777 1.2954 1.2757
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.6388 8.0025 8.1933 7.1844
SOUTH KOREA WON 1122.6900 1140.3275 1148.1262 1117.4368
SRI LANKA RUPEE 117.2810 113.8195 113.8067 110.8074
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6619 6.8463 6.8553 6.4342
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9118 0.9376 0.9334 0.9500
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.5340 29.9900 30.2505 29.2779
THAILAND BAHT 30.6850 31.5060 31.1743 30.6953
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5804 1.5524 1.5587 1.6124
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2896 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 98.1209 99.8432 100.4641 97.8801
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.2916 73.3486 73.2349 71.9960
3) OITP JAN97=100 126.0081 128.5204 130.1344 125.8671

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5.
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 to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect with the May 2009 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.
* 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.
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The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-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: March 1, 2012