Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5A

Current Release

Release Date: January 6, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5A Annual

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

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in 2010 together with comparable figures for other years. 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	2010	2009	2008	2007
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9200	0.7927	0.8537	0.8391
BRAZIL	REAL	1.7601	1.9976	1.8326	1.9461
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0298	1.1412	1.0660	1.0734
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.7696	6.8307	6.9477	7.6058
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6266	5.3574	5.0885	5.4413
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3261	1.3935	1.4726	1.3711
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7687	7.7514	7.7862	7.8016
INDIA	RUPEE	45.65	48.33	43.39	41.18
JAPAN	YEN	87.78	93.68	103.39	117.76
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2175	3.5231	3.3292	3.4354
MEXICO	PESO	12.623	13.498	11.143	10.928
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7216	0.6358	0.7151	0.7365
NORWAY	KRONE	6.0451	6.2908	5.6365	5.8557
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3629	1.4543	1.4140	1.5065
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.3161	8.4117	8.2480	7.0477
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1155.74	1274.63	1098.71	928.97
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	112.990	114.909	108.298	110.620
SWEDEN	KRONA	7.2053	7.6539	6.5846	6.7550
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	1.0432	1.0860	1.0816	1.1999
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	31.498	33.020	31.521	32.855
THAILAND	BAHT	31.700	34.310	32.962	32.203
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5452	1.5661	1.8545	2.0020
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.24	2.14	2.14	2.14
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	101.97	105.62	99.89	103.58
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	75.36	77.66	74.40	77.94
3) OITP	JAN97=100	130.61	135.91	126.83	130.28

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g5a.
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 200,5), pp. 1-8 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. 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 euro-area curriencies. These currency rates can be derived from the 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
= 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