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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE August 30, 1996
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING AUGUST 1996
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN AUGUST 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 August July June August
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7830 0.7897 0.7912 0.7414
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 10.435 10.576 10.755 10.168
BELGIUM FRANC 30.553 30.947 31.433 29.735
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3722 1.3697 1.3658 1.3552
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3379 8.3409 8.3424 8.3253
DENMARK KRONE 5.7327 5.8014 5.8941 5.6060
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.2685 1.2570 1.2379 1.2947
FINLAND MARKKA 4.4793 4.5812 4.6710 4.3170
FRANCE FRANC 5.0636 5.0881 5.1787 4.9727
GERMANY D. MARK 1.4826 1.5025 1.5282 1.4456
GREECE DRACHMA 237.00 237.65 241.75 232.38
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7345 7.7379 7.7404 7.7416
INDIA RUPEE 35.800 35.667 35.100 31.592
*IRELAND POUND 1.6108 1.6031 1.5831 1.6025
ITALY LIRA 1516.62 1526.82 1542.30 1607.18
JAPAN YEN 107.87 109.19 108.96 94.74
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.4933 2.4915 2.4967 2.4813
MEXICO PESO 7.5143 7.6179 7.5648 6.2047
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 1.6633 1.6862 1.7120 1.6195
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6886 0.6900 0.6765 0.6569
NORWAY KRONE 6.4153 6.4465 6.5376 6.3438
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 152.27 154.56 157.40 149.88
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4124 1.4160 1.4090 1.4116
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.5289 4.3963 4.3519 3.6402
SOUTH KOREA WON 817.52 813.03 798.45 767.42
SPAIN PESETA 125.72 126.96 128.87 123.45
SRI LANKA RUPEE 55.603 55.293 55.529 51.227
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6211 6.6394 6.6807 7.2383
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2029 1.2320 1.2579 1.1962
TAIWAN DOLLAR 27.496 27.573 27.674 27.234
THAILAND BAHT 25.289 25.355 25.354 24.960
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5499 1.5530 1.5416 1.5668
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 86.54 87.25 88.16 84.59
*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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