Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Daily); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: December 31, 2008
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Effective January 1, 2009, the Federal Reserve Board is discontinuing publication of the H.10 Daily Update, which provides U.S. dollar exchange rates against other currencies certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and summary measures of the foreign exchange value of the dollar. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York also has issued notification that it will discontinue publication of these foreign exchange rates on its web site.

The Federal Reserve Board will still make the certified exchange rates available. Effective January 5, 2009, the Board will publish the daily exchange rate data in a weekly version of the H.10 release, reinstituting the weekly publication, which had been discontinued in May 2006. The webpage that links to historical data from the H.10 release will also be updated once per week to pick up the daily data from the previous week.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 H.10 DAILY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES: for immediate release                     December 31, 2008                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is advised that the Federal Reserve                                                                                                                                                     
   Bank of New York has certified for customs purposes the following noon buying rates in                                                                                                                                                       
   New York City for cable transfers payable in foreign currencies:                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT Dec. 29 Dec. 30 Dec. 31 Jan. 1 Jan. 2
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6950 0.6906 0.6983    
BRAZIL REAL 2.3975 2.3291 2.3180    
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2162 1.2215 1.2240    
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8447 6.8295 6.8225    
DENMARK KRONE 5.2335 5.2895 5.3497    
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4232 1.4085 1.3919    
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7500 7.7498 7.7499    
INDIA RUPEE 48.2500 48.0500 48.5800    
JAPAN YEN 90.2000 90.3700 90.7900    
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4780 3.4770 3.4500    
MEXICO PESO 13.5225 13.7600 13.8320    
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5825 0.5770 0.5815    
NORWAY KRONE 7.0047 7.0030 6.9756    
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4370 1.4372 1.4377    
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.4600 9.3500 9.3000    
SOUTH KOREA WON 1262.0000 1257.4000 1262.0000    
SRI LANKA RUPEE 113.6200 113.3000 112.9000    
SWEDEN KRONA 7.7354 7.7875 7.8770    
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0414 1.0567 1.0673    
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.9900 32.7600 32.7600    
THAILAND BAHT 34.9700 34.7100 34.7200    
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4591 1.4395 1.4619    
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR Dec. 29 Dec. 30 Dec. 31 Jan. 1 Jan. 2
1)BROAD JAN97=100 106.6383 107.0459 107.3574    
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 78.4987 79.0638 79.4142    
3)OITP JAN97=100 137.5822 137.6436 137.8345    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 currencie                                                                                                                                          
   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 January 2, 2007 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                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  5.94573  FINNISH MARKKAS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                  =  6.55957  FRENCH FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                  =  1.95583  GERMAN MARKS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  .787564  IRISH POUNDS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  1936.27  ITALIAN LIRE                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  40.3399  LUXEMBOURG FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                 
                  =  2.20371  NETHERLANDS GUILDERS                                                                                                                                                                                              
                  =  200.482  PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS                                                                                                                                                                                                
                  =  166.386  SPANISH PESETAS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                  =  340.750  GREEK DRACHMAS                                                                                                                                                                                                    


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