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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE March 31, 1997
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING MARCH 1997
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MARCH 1997 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 1997 1997 1997 1996
COUNTRY UNIT March February January March
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7875 0.7677 0.7776 0.7714
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 11.931 11.785 11.289 10.391
BELGIUM FRANC 34.961 34.556 33.087 30.371
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3725 1.3556 1.3494 1.3656
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3258 8.3227 8.3260 8.3495
DENMARK KRONE 6.4628 6.3867 6.1199 5.7074
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.1458 1.1591 1.2096 1.2538
FINLAND MARKKA 5.0632 4.9792 4.7766 4.6066
FRANCE FRANC 5.7154 5.6536 5.4145 5.0583
GERMANY D. MARK 1.6946 1.6747 1.6047 1.4776
GREECE DRACHMA 266.86 262.42 251.54 241.54
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7460 7.7474 7.7397 7.7325
INDIA RUPEE 35.885 35.891 35.904 34.485
*IRELAND POUND 1.5657 1.5860 1.6311 1.5721
ITALY LIRA 1691.21 1655.00 1567.91 1562.43
JAPAN YEN 122.77 122.96 117.91 105.94
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.4773 2.4866 2.4900 2.5417
MEXICO PESO 7.9562 7.8023 7.8289 7.5682
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 1.9071 1.8812 1.8023 1.6540
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6979 0.6908 0.7009 0.6808
NORWAY KRONE 6.7915 6.6323 6.4589 6.4277
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 170.35 168.24 160.53 152.93
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4378 1.4193 1.4061 1.4095
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.4319 4.4557 4.6402 3.9293
SOUTH KOREA WON 882.62 868.39 854.07 781.31
SPAIN PESETA 143.72 141.85 134.79 124.39
SRI LANKA RUPEE 57.873 57.772 57.278 53.748
SWEDEN KRONA 7.6502 7.4069 7.0692 6.7318
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4634 1.4541 1.3913 1.1959
TAIWAN DOLLAR 27.551 27.554 27.477 27.400
THAILAND BAHT 25.959 25.957 25.726 25.250
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6096 1.6256 1.6585 1.5271
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 95.60 94.52 91.01 86.57
*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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