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1FEDERAL RESERVE STATISTICAL RELEASE July 31, 1998
G.5(405) FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES FOR THE MONTH ENDING JULY 1998
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JULY 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 July June May July
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6180 0.6046 0.6312 0.7420
AUSTRIA SCHILLING 12.650 12.615 12.491 12.620
BELGIUM FRANC 37.074 36.981 36.624 37.040
CANADA DOLLAR 1.4869 1.4655 1.4452 1.3775
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 8.3100 8.3100 8.3084 8.3162
DENMARK KRONE 6.8499 6.8294 6.7662 6.8317
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU 1.0990 1.1016 1.1096 1.0998
FINLAND MARKKA 5.4653 5.4503 5.3966 5.3164
FRANCE FRANC 6.0280 6.0118 5.9528 6.0511
GERMANY D. MARK 1.7976 1.7928 1.7753 1.7939
GREECE DRACHMA 299.35 304.24 307.22 281.43
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7483 7.7471 7.7490 7.7454
INDIA RUPEE 42.612 42.367 40.469 35.747
*IRELAND POUND 1.3988 1.4051 1.4174 1.4945
ITALY LIRA 1772.42 1766.32 1750.79 1745.91
JAPAN YEN 140.79 140.33 134.90 115.38
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.1591 4.0006 3.8204 2.5815
MEXICO PESO 8.8990 8.9200 8.5848 7.8679
NETHERLANDS GUILDER 2.0267 2.0208 2.0005 2.0201
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5185 0.5123 0.5388 0.6610
NORWAY KRONE 7.6246 7.5785 7.4539 7.4545
PORTUGAL ESCUDO 183.93 183.58 181.87 181.20
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7085 1.6941 1.6374 1.4521
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.2285 5.3910 5.0927 4.5611
SOUTH KOREA WON 1295.76 1397.77 1399.05 893.09
SPAIN PESETA 152.58 152.18 150.81 151.33
SRI LANKA RUPEE 65.908 65.150 64.261 58.732
SWEDEN KRONA 7.9942 7.9174 7.7026 7.8188
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.5136 1.4949 1.4790 1.4824
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.387 34.553 33.466 28.032
THAILAND BAHT 41.300 42.332 39.198 30.274
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6437 1.6504 1.6382 1.6694
MEMO:
**UNITED STATES DOLLAR 101.38 100.90 99.61 97.48
*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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