Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: November 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 OCTOBER 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 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 October 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0298 1.0406 1.0475 1.0168
BRAZIL REAL 2.0297 2.0269 2.0279 1.7703
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9872 0.9783 0.9924 1.0198
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2627 6.3200 6.3593 6.3710
DENMARK KRONE 5.7486 5.7855 6.0015 5.4225
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2974 1.2885 1.2406 1.3732
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7515 7.7540 7.7562 7.7774
INDIA RUPEE 53.0995 54.3500 55.4935 49.2020
JAPAN YEN 79.0132 78.1353 78.6909 76.6430
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0524 3.0758 3.1153 3.1336
MEXICO PESO 12.8976 12.9235 13.1793 13.4379
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8197 0.8199 0.8104 0.7912
NORWAY KRONE 5.7078 5.7467 5.9012 5.6405
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2237 1.2303 1.2480 1.2757
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.6424 8.2574 8.2596 7.9540
SOUTH KOREA WON 1105.3823 1122.9911 1131.7457 1150.6850
SRI LANKA RUPEE 129.0859 131.5105 131.9896 110.0875
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6400 6.5960 6.6758 6.6396
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9323 0.9386 0.9681 0.8958
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.2418 29.4763 29.9426 30.2590
THAILAND BAHT 30.6764 30.9442 31.3970 30.8395
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6080 1.6126 1.5722 1.5768
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 98.9623 99.2415 100.8171 98.8857
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.7435 72.5776 74.2421 71.5728
3) OITP JAN97=100 127.3178 128.1910 129.5188 128.7775

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: November 1, 2012