Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: October 22, 2012

NOTE: Federal Reserve Board Closure, October 29, 2012 and October 30, 2012

Due to expected severe weather, federal offices in the Washington, D.C., area, are closed to the public on Monday, October 29, 2012 and Tuesday, October 30, 2012. The Board's daily and weekly statistical releases scheduled for Monday and Tuesday will be published on the first business day that federal offices in the Washington, D.C., area reopen.

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY CURRENCY Oct. 15 Oct. 16 Oct. 17 Oct. 18 Oct. 19
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0245 1.0270 1.0380 1.0397 1.0328
BRAZIL REAL 2.0355 2.0326 2.0323 2.0280 2.0269
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9783 0.9854 0.9795 0.9811 0.9930
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2700 6.2637 6.2540 6.2501 6.2533
DENMARK KRONE 5.7596 5.7221 5.6800 5.6901 5.7274
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2950 1.3036 1.3133 1.3106 1.3022
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7508 7.7512 7.7515 7.7501 7.7501
INDIA RUPEE 53.0900 52.8900 52.8600 53.4600 54.0800
JAPAN YEN 78.7600 78.9200 78.7400 79.2400 79.2600
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0560 3.0506 3.0345 3.0345 3.0490
MEXICO PESO 12.8165 12.8103 12.8001 12.8271 12.8605
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8189 0.8137 0.8218 0.8224 0.8161
NORWAY KRONE 5.7090 5.6670 5.6271 5.6164 5.6581
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2219 1.2207 1.2159 1.2177 1.2209
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.8130 8.7292 8.5889 8.6255 8.6400
SOUTH KOREA WON 1110.2400 1106.1000 1104.7400 1104.6600 1105.5100
SRI LANKA RUPEE 128.3000 128.6300 128.6500 128.7000 128.9500
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6614 6.6150 6.5892 6.5484 6.5684
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9330 0.9273 0.9217 0.9225 0.9286
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.2100 29.1700 29.1500 29.2200 29.2600
THAILAND BAHT 30.7300 30.6600 30.5900 30.6200 30.7300
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6069 1.6101 1.6165 1.6141 1.6003
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 98.8254 98.7185 98.3886 98.5321 98.9451
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.5850 72.5402 72.1153 72.2799 72.8007
3) OITP JAN97=100 127.2214 127.0370 126.8645 126.9675 127.1993
ND = No data for this date.

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 of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect with the May 2010 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 L.P.

* 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.

The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-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: October 22, 2012