Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: June 2, 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 MAY 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 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 May 2013
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9305 0.9315 0.9089 0.9919
BRAZIL REAL 2.2195 2.2325 2.3251 2.0365
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0894 1.0992 1.1107 1.0196
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2380 6.2246 6.1729 6.1416
DENMARK KRONE 5.4331 5.4056 5.3975 5.7410
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3739 1.3810 1.3828 1.2983
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7523 7.7540 7.7612 7.7614
INDIA RUPEE 59.2843 60.3464 60.9476 54.9845
JAPAN YEN 101.7738 102.4582 102.3395 100.9186
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.2291 3.2539 3.2801 3.0188
MEXICO PESO 12.9330 13.0669 13.1929 12.2993
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8605 0.8606 0.8539 0.8249
NORWAY KRONE 5.9389 5.9790 5.9955 5.8202
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2514 1.2548 1.2672 1.2486
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 10.4092 10.5364 10.7445 9.3494
SOUTH KOREA WON 1024.7867 1042.6350 1070.4910 1111.4945
SRI LANKA RUPEE 130.3833 130.5936 130.5857 126.2432
SWEDEN KRONA 6.5719 6.5488 6.4114 6.5992
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.8883 0.8828 0.8805 0.9557
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.1167 30.1927 30.3995 29.7755
THAILAND BAHT 32.5257 32.2982 32.3619 29.7618
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6842 1.6748 1.6624 1.5297
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 6.2842 6.2842 6.2842 6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 102.4061 102.7351 103.1349 100.8552
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 76.4281 76.5754 76.8239 77.0930
3) OITP JAN97=100 130.2328 130.7802 131.3543 125.9142

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: June 2, 2014