Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: February 3, 2014

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 JANUARY 2014 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	January 2014	December 2013	November 2013	January 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.8858	0.8980	0.9324	1.0500
BRAZIL	REAL	2.3858	2.3471	2.2959	2.0281
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0940	1.0639	1.0486	0.9921
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.0509	6.0738	6.0929	6.2215
DENMARK	KRONE	5.4787	5.4418	5.5281	5.6087
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3618	1.3708	1.3491	1.3304
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7578	7.7535	7.7523	7.7530
INDIA	RUPEE	62.1057	61.8110	62.5179	54.2290
JAPAN	YEN	103.7614	103.4600	100.0737	89.0581
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.3028	3.2491	3.1961	3.0407
MEXICO	PESO	13.2220	13.0099	13.0597	12.6964
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8275	0.8224	0.8259	0.8370
NORWAY	KRONE	6.1622	6.1342	6.0856	5.5500
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2726	1.2589	1.2476	1.2282
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.8872	10.3683	10.2009	8.7978
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1067.1267	1055.6348	1061.5637	1066.5205
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.6857	130.7643	131.0895	126.7200
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.4862	6.5328	6.5863	6.4801
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9038	0.8933	0.9129	0.9234
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.1357	29.7233	29.5179	29.1000
THAILAND	BAHT	32.9262	32.3505	31.6242	30.0410
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6470	1.6383	1.6100	1.5965
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	102.9932	102.0279	101.8122	98.9676
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	77.3191	76.4455	76.2222	73.6649
3) OITP	JAN97=100	130.3867	129.3584	129.1657	126.1189

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