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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE November 29, 1996
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING NOVEMBER 1996
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN NOVEMBER 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 November October September November
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7968 0.7918 0.7928 0.7453
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 10.640 10.748 10.610 9.974
BELGIUM FRANC 31.172 31.470 31.056 29.154
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3381 1.3508 1.3694 1.3534
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3294 8.3299 8.3341 8.3334
DENMARK KRONE 5.8053 5.8576 5.8057 5.4923
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.2700 1.2537 1.2576 1.2957
FINLAND MARKKA 4.5512 4.5694 4.5421 4.2489
FRANCE FRANC 5.1156 5.1652 5.1307 4.8882
GERMANY D. MARK 1.5118 1.5277 1.5080 1.4173
GREECE DRACHMA 238.38 239.76 239.67 234.16
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7323 7.7322 7.7328 7.7338
INDIA RUPEE 35.892 35.804 35.870 34.710
*IRELAND POUND 1.6645 1.6083 1.6096 1.6054
ITALY LIRA 1513.66 1523.82 1520.48 1592.67
JAPAN YEN 112.30 112.41 109.93 101.94
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.5234 2.5074 2.5009 2.5389
MEXICO PESO 7.9119 7.7345 7.5441 7.6936
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 1.6958 1.7141 1.6905 1.5877
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7098 0.7007 0.6964 0.6522
NORWAY KRONE 6.3554 6.4810 6.4613 6.2536
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 152.83 154.28 153.99 148.68
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4025 1.4124 1.4086 1.4128
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.6577 4.5799 4.5489 3.6476
SOUTH KOREA WON 830.56 828.24 822.40 769.78
SPAIN PESETA 127.28 128.60 127.11 121.81
SRI LANKA RUPEE 56.987 57.015 56.050 53.199
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6269 6.6006 6.6427 6.6088
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2752 1.2586 1.2343 1.1437
TAIWAN DOLLAR 27.522 27.532 27.500 27.257
THAILAND BAHT 25.459 25.474 25.407 25.166
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6623 1.5863 1.5593 1.5625
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 86.98 87.98 87.46 84.14
*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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