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FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE June 1, 1998
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING MAY 1998
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 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 1998 1997
COUNTRY UNIT May April March May
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6312 0.6523 0.6696 0.7751
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 12.491 12.760 12.852 11.998
BELGIUM FRANC 36.624 37.423 37.699 35.188
CANADA DOLLAR 1.4452 1.4298 1.4166 1.3804
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3084 8.3058 8.3076 8.3229
DENMARK KRONE 6.7662 6.9174 6.9661 6.4926
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.1096 1.0927 1.0853 1.1431
FINLAND MARKKA 5.3966 5.5053 5.5467 5.1444
FRANCE FRANC 5.9528 6.0782 6.1257 5.7482
GERMANY D. MARK 1.7753 1.8132 1.8272 1.7048
GREECE DRACHMA 307.22 315.82 306.05 271.95
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7490 7.7497 7.7458 7.7431
INDIA RUPEE 40.469 39.703 39.569 35.825
*IRELAND POUND 1.4174 1.3894 1.3672 1.5111
ITALY LIRA 1750.79 1791.24 1799.07 1684.33
JAPAN YEN 134.90 131.75 129.08 119.19
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8204 3.7376 3.7456 2.5070
MEXICO PESO 8.5848 8.5017 8.5681 7.9037
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 2.0005 2.0422 2.0598 1.9173
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5388 0.5534 0.5726 0.6910
NORWAY KRONE 7.4539 7.5315 7.5833 7.0797
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 181.87 185.81 187.03 171.72
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.6374 1.6007 1.6188 1.4368
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 5.0927 5.0459 4.9746 4.4668
SOUTH KOREA WON 1399.05 1391.55 1489.36 894.67
SPAIN PESETA 150.81 153.99 154.95 143.93
SRI LANKA RUPEE 64.261 62.903 62.083 58.862
SWEDEN KRONA 7.7026 7.8238 7.9677 7.6856
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4790 1.5051 1.4901 1.4331
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.466 33.015 32.524 27.791
THAILAND BAHT 39.198 39.654 41.366 25.750
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6382 1.6723 1.6619 1.6322
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 99.61 100.30 100.47 95.29
*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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