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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE July 1, 1997
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING JUNE 1997
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JUNE 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 June May April June
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7542 0.7751 0.7787 0.7912
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 12.158 11.998 12.050 10.755
BELGIUM FRANC 35.659 35.188 35.328 31.433
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3842 1.3804 1.3942 1.3658
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3224 8.3229 8.3257 8.3424
DENMARK KRONE 6.5804 6.4926 6.5226 5.8941
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.1304 1.1431 1.1396 1.2379
FINLAND MARKKA 5.1794 5.1444 5.1375 4.6710
FRANCE FRANC 5.8307 5.7482 5.7672 5.1787
GERMANY D. MARK 1.7281 1.7048 1.7119 1.5282
GREECE DRACHMA 273.83 271.95 270.58 241.75
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7445 7.7431 7.7483 7.7404
INDIA RUPEE 35.820 35.825 35.828 35.100
*IRELAND POUND 1.5060 1.5111 1.5505 1.5831
ITALY LIRA 1694.99 1684.33 1694.52 1542.30
JAPAN YEN 114.35 119.19 125.64 108.96
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 2.5167 2.5070 2.5028 2.4967
MEXICO PESO 7.9498 7.9037 7.9059 7.5648
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 1.9443 1.9173 1.9256 1.7120
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6871 0.6910 0.6922 0.6765
NORWAY KRONE 7.2240 7.0797 6.9932 6.5376
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 174.56 171.72 171.77 157.40
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4271 1.4368 1.4417 1.4090
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.5005 4.4668 4.4417 4.3519
SOUTH KOREA WON 891.40 894.67 895.57 798.45
SPAIN PESETA 145.98 143.93 144.48 128.87
SRI LANKA RUPEE 58.531 58.862 58.825 55.529
SWEDEN KRONA 7.7518 7.6856 7.6942 6.6807
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4427 1.4331 1.4618 1.2579
TAIWAN DOLLAR 27.903 27.791 27.629 27.674
THAILAND BAHT 24.534 25.750 26.064 25.354
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6447 1.6322 1.6293 1.5416
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 95.44 95.29 96.39 88.16
*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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