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G.5(405) April 30, 1999
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN APRIL 1999 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 1999 1999 1999 1998
COUNTRY UNIT April March February April
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6420 0.6308 0.6399 0.6523
AUSTRIA SCHILLING N.A. N.A. N.A. 12.760
BELGIUM FRANC N.A. N.A. N.A. 37.42
BRAZIL REAL 1.7025 1.9057 1.9261 1.1409
CANADA DOLLAR 1.4881 1.5176 1.4977 1.4298
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2792 8.2792 8.2755 8.3058
DENMARK KRONE 6.9475 6.8287 6.6379 6.9174
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.0701 1.0886 1.1203 N.A.
*EURO COMMUNITY ECU N.A. N.A. N.A. 1.0927
FINLAND MARKKA N.A. N.A. N.A. 5.5053
FRANCE FRANC N.A. N.A. N.A. 6.0782
GERMANY D. MARK N.A. N.A. N.A. 1.8132
GREECE DRACHMA 304.26 296.36 287.41 315.82
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7495 7.7493 7.7490 7.7497
INDIA RUPEE 42.80 42.52 42.53 39.70
*IRELAND POUND N.A. N.A. N.A. 1.3894
ITALY LIRA N.A. N.A. N.A. 1791.24
JAPAN YEN 119.77 119.47 116.67 131.75
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.7376
MEXICO PESO 9.430 9.732 10.006 8.502
NETHERLANDS GUILDER N.A. N.A. N.A. 2.0422
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5427 0.5345 0.5435 0.5534
NORWAY KRONE 7.7750 7.8151 7.7240 7.5315
PORTUGAL ESCUDO N.A. N.A. N.A. 185.81
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7134 1.7292 1.7004 1.6007
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.1186 6.2136 6.1146 5.0459
SOUTH KOREA WON 1209.96 1229.72 1188.84 1391.55
SPAIN PESETA N.A. N.A. N.A. 153.99
SRI LANKA RUPEE 69.588 69.570 69.069 62.903
SWEDEN KRONA 8.3293 8.2144 7.9532 7.8238
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4971 1.4660 1.4272 1.5051
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.965 33.165 32.564 33.015
THAILAND BAHT 37.631 37.557 37.137 39.654
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6089 1.6213 1.6276 1.6723
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 587.79 580.06 577.32 531.26
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 117.15 117.80 116.37 114.13
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 95.76 95.69 93.76 96.41
3)OITP JAN97=100 129.24 131.03 130.83 120.53
This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/release/.
For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "New Summary Measures
of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 84 (October 1998),
pp. 811-18 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/) and "Index of the Weighted-Average
Exchange Value of the U.S. Dollar: Revision," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 64 (August 1978),
p. 700. Weights for broad index can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/; weights for
the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived
from the broad index weights.
* Value is U.S. dollars.
1) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against the currencies
of a broad group of major U.S. trading partners.
2) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of
the broad index currencies that circulate widely outside the country of issue.
3) A weighted average of the foreign exchange value of the U.S. dollar against a subset of
the broad index currencies that do not circulate widely outside the country of issue.
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As of January 1, 1999, the euro is reported in place of the individual eure-area currencies.
These currency rates can be derived from the euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates
(in currencies per euro) given below:
1 EUR = 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS
= 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS
= 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
= 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
= 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
= .787564 IRISH POUNDS
= 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
= 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
= 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
= 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
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