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FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE February 2, 1998
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING JANUARY 1998
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JANUARY 1998 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 1998 1997 1997 1997
COUNTRY UNIT January December November January
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6566 0.6619 0.6953 0.7776
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 12.765 12.510 12.181 11.289
BELGIUM FRANC 37.536 36.748 35.737 33.087
CANADA DOLLAR 1.4409 1.4271 1.4128 1.3494
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3094 8.3099 8.3109 8.3260
DENMARK KRONE 6.9190 6.7752 6.5937 6.1199
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.0869 1.1119 1.1419 1.2096
FINLAND MARKKA 5.5006 5.3789 5.2217 4.7766
FRANCE FRANC 6.0832 5.9542 5.8001 5.4145
GERMANY D. MARK 1.8165 1.7788 1.7323 1.6047
GREECE DRACHMA 287.24 279.93 271.87 251.54
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7425 7.7456 7.7314 7.7397
INDIA RUPEE 39.391 39.400 37.289 35.904
*IRELAND POUND 1.3819 1.4533 1.5030 1.6311
ITALY LIRA 1787.87 1743.86 1697.08 1567.91
JAPAN YEN 129.55 129.73 125.38 117.91
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.4093 3.7907 3.3791 2.4900
MEXICO PESO 8.2272 8.1271 8.2716 7.8289
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 2.0472 2.0051 1.9524 1.8023
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5793 0.5914 0.6242 0.7009
NORWAY KRONE 7.5007 7.2630 7.0588 6.4589
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 185.80 181.91 176.84 160.53
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7477 1.6518 1.5820 1.4061
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.9417 4.8706 4.8394 4.6402
SOUTH KOREA WON 1707.30 1494.04 1035.22 854.07
SPAIN PESETA 153.93 150.46 146.30 134.79
SRI LANKA RUPEE 62.281 61.591 60.132 57.278
SWEDEN KRONA 8.0193 7.7977 7.5589 7.0692
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4748 1.4393 1.4069 1.3913
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.117 32.502 31.794 27.477
THAILAND BAHT 52.983 44.309 39.092 25.726
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6350 1.6597 1.6889 1.6585
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 100.52 98.82 96.37 91.01
*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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