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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE October 31, 1996
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING OCTOBER 1996
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN OCTOBER 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 October September August October
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7918 0.7928 0.7830 0.7570
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 10.748 10.610 10.435 9.954
BELGIUM FRANC 31.470 31.056 30.553 29.105
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3508 1.3694 1.3722 1.3458
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3299 8.3341 8.3379 8.3353
DENMARK KRONE 5.8576 5.8057 5.7327 5.4912
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.2537 1.2576 1.2685 1.2985
FINLAND MARKKA 4.5694 4.5421 4.4793 4.2781
FRANCE FRANC 5.1652 5.1307 5.0636 4.9374
GERMANY D. MARK 1.5277 1.5080 1.4826 1.4143
GREECE DRACHMA 239.76 239.67 237.00 232.65
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7322 7.7328 7.7345 7.7317
INDIA RUPEE 35.804 35.870 35.800 34.656
*IRELAND POUND 1.6083 1.6096 1.6108 1.6132
ITALY LIRA 1523.82 1520.48 1516.62 1605.69
JAPAN YEN 112.41 109.93 107.87 100.84
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.5074 2.5009 2.4933 2.5324
MEXICO PESO 7.7345 7.5441 7.5143 6.7452
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 1.7141 1.6905 1.6633 1.5846
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7003 0.6964 0.6886 0.6590
NORWAY KRONE 6.4810 6.4613 6.4153 6.2397
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 154.28 153.99 152.27 148.94
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4124 1.4086 1.4124 1.4231
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.5799 4.5489 4.5289 3.6502
SOUTH KOREA WON 828.24 822.40 817.52 767.20
SPAIN PESETA 128.60 127.11 125.72 122.51
SRI LANKA RUPEE 57.015 56.050 55.603 52.539
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6006 6.6427 6.6211 6.8301
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2586 1.2343 1.2029 1.1453
TAIWAN DOLLAR 27.532 27.500 27.496 26.925
THAILAND BAHT 25.474 25.407 25.289 25.115
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5863 1.5593 1.5499 1.5779
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 87.98 87.46 86.54 84.10
*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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