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Release Date: October 1, 1997
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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE October 1, 1997
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING SEPTEMBER 1997
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN SEPTEMBER 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 September August July September
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7231 0.7404 0.7420 0.7928
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 12.568 12.946 12.620 10.610
BELGIUM FRANC 36.876 38.011 37.040 31.056
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3872 1.3905 1.3775 1.3694
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3171 8.3187 8.3162 8.3341
DENMARK KRONE 6.8001 7.0109 6.8317 5.8057
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.0981 1.0693 1.0998 1.2576
FINLAND MARKKA 5.3455 5.5046 5.3164 4.5421
FRANCE FRANC 6.0031 6.2010 6.0511 5.1307
GERMANY D. MARK 1.7862 1.8400 1.7939 1.5080
GREECE DRACHMA 281.69 288.41 281.43 239.67
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7440 7.7436 7.7454 7.7328
INDIA RUPEE 36.476 36.008 35.747 35.870
*IRELAND POUND 1.4806 1.4534 1.4945 1.6096
ITALY LIRA 1743.22 1797.12 1745.91 1520.48
JAPAN YEN 120.89 117.93 115.38 109.93
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0254 2.7589 2.5815 2.5009
MEXICO PESO 7.7809 7.7818 7.8679 7.5441
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 2.0116 2.0709 2.0201 1.6905
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6360 0.6421 0.6610 0.6964
NORWAY KRONE 7.3008 7.6224 7.4545 6.4613
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 181.49 186.50 181.20 153.99
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5164 1.4977 1.4521 1.4086
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.6890 4.6856 4.5611 4.5039
SOUTH KOREA WON 912.50 898.71 893.09 822.40
SPAIN PESETA 150.75 155.51 151.33 127.11
SRI LANKA RUPEE 59.713 59.189 58.732 56.050
SWEDEN KRONA 7.6887 7.9886 7.8188 6.6427
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4702 1.5128 1.4824 1.2343
TAIWAN DOLLAR 28.731 28.824 28.032 27.500
THAILAND BAHT 35.256 32.399 30.274 25.407
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6013 1.6035 1.6694 1.5593
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 98.29 99.96 97.48 87.46
*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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