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FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE February 27, 1998
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING FEBRUARY 1998
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 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 1998 1997 1997
COUNTRY UNIT February January December February
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6744 0.6566 0.6619 0.7677
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 12.735 12.765 12.510 11.785
BELGIUM FRANC 37.417 37.536 36.748 34.556
CANADA DOLLAR 1.4334 1.4409 1.4271 1.3556
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3072 8.3094 8.3099 8.3227
DENMARK KRONE 6.9089 6.9190 6.7752 6.3867
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.0893 1.0869 1.1119 1.1591
FINLAND MARKKA 5.4999 5.5006 5.3789 4.9792
FRANCE FRANC 6.0744 6.0832 5.9542 5.6536
GERMANY D. MARK 1.8123 1.8165 1.7788 1.6747
GREECE DRACHMA 286.70 287.24 279.93 262.42
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7412 7.7425 7.7456 7.7474
INDIA RUPEE 39.008 39.391 39.400 35.891
*IRELAND POUND 1.3771 1.3819 1.4533 1.5860
ITALY LIRA 1788.28 1787.87 1743.86 1655.00
JAPAN YEN 125.85 129.55 129.73 122.96
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8148 4.4093 3.7907 2.4866
MEXICO PESO 8.5021 8.2272 8.1271 7.8023
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 2.0432 2.0472 2.0051 1.8812
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5829 0.5793 0.5914 0.6908
NORWAY KRONE 7.5530 7.5007 7.2630 6.6323
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 185.54 185.80 181.91 168.24
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.6509 1.7477 1.6518 1.4193
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 4.9337 4.9417 4.8706 4.4557
SOUTH KOREA WON 1628.42 1707.30 1494.04 868.39
SPAIN PESETA 153.61 153.93 150.46 141.85
SRI LANKA RUPEE 62.363 62.281 61.591 57.772
SWEDEN KRONA 8.0723 8.0193 7.7977 7.4069
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4631 1.4748 1.4393 1.4541
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.948 34.117 32.502 27.554
THAILAND BAHT 45.987 52.983 44.309 25.957
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6408 1.6350 1.6597 1.6256
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 99.93 100.52 98.82 94.52
*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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