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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE June 28, 1996
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING JUNE 1996
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JUNE 1996 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.
(RATES IN CURRENCY UNITS PER DOLLAR)
MONETARY 1996 1996 1996 1995
COUNTRY UNIT June May April June
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7912 0.7970 0.7857 0.7196
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 10.755 10.782 10.580 9.854
BELGIUM FRANC 31.433 31.502 30.902 28.790
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3658 1.3693 1.3592 1.3775
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3424 8.3479 8.3583 8.3206
DENMARK KRONE 5.8941 5.9160 5.9414 5.4604
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.2379 1.2283 1.2432 1.3184
FINLAND MARKKA 4.6710 4.7541 4.7288 4.3134
FRANCE FRANC 5.1787 5.1855 5.1049 4.9172
GERMANY D. MARK 1.5282 1.5324 1.5048 1.4012
GREECE DRACHMA 241.75 243.27 242.00 226.56
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7404 7.7363 7.7345 7.7356
INDIA RUPEE 35.100 35.025 34.320 31.404
*IRELAND POUND 1.5831 1.5629 1.5651 1.6287
ITALY LIRA 1542.30 1556.71 1565.60 1639.75
JAPAN YEN 108.96 106.34 107.20 84.64
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.4967 2.4936 2.5113 2.4396
MEXICO PESO 7.5648 7.4368 7.4694 6.2330
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 1.7120 1.7135 1.6805 1.5686
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6765 0.6857 0.6824 0.6695
NORWAY KRONE 6.5376 6.5748 6.4901 6.2387
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 157.40 157.54 154.51 147.63
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4090 1.4074 1.4082 1.3953
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.3519 4.3679 4.2130 3.6627
SOUTH KOREA WON 798.45 780.86 780.42 763.88
SPAIN PESETA 128.87 127.97 125.49 121.71
SRI LANKA RUPEE 55.529 54.868 54.163 50.210
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6807 6.7984 6.7141 7.2631
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2579 1.2539 1.2180 1.1588
TAIWAN DOLLAR 27.674 27.352 27.188 25.784
THAILAND BAHT 25.354 25.289 25.290 24.672
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5416 1.5152 1.5160 1.5948
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 88.16 88.28 87.46 82.27
*VALUE IS U.S. DOLLARS
**INDEX OF WEIGHTED AVERAGE EXCHANGE VALUE OF U.S. DOLLAR AGAINST CURRENCIES OF OTHER
G-10 COUNTRIES. MARCH 1973 = 100. WEIGHTS ARE 1972-76 GLOBAL TRADE OF EACH OF THE
10 COUNTRIES. SERIES REVISED AS OF AUGUST 1978. FOR DESCRIPTION AND BACK DATA, SEE
"INDEX OF THE WEIGHTED-AVERAGE EXCHANGE VALUE OF THE U.S. DOLLAR: REVISION" ON PAGE
700 OF THE AUGUST 1978 FEDERAL RESERVE BULLETIN.
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