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G.5(405) May 31, 2001
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 2001 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.
(Currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
MONETARY 2001 2001 2001 2000
COUNTRY UNIT May April March May
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5199 0.5016 0.5031 0.5784
BRAZIL REAL 2.2926 2.1934 2.0955 1.8278
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5411 1.5578 1.5587 1.4957
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2770 8.2771 8.2775 8.2781
DENMARK KRONE 8.5256 8.3657 8.2229 8.2329
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.8753 0.8925 0.9083 0.9059
GREECE DRACHMA N.A. N.A. N.A. 371.63
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7999 7.7993 7.7999 7.7907
INDIA RUPEE 46.95 46.79 46.65 44.08
JAPAN YEN 121.77 123.77 121.51 108.32
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.148 9.328 9.599 9.506
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4218 0.4069 0.4182 0.4708
NORWAY KRONE 9.1380 9.0920 8.9859 9.0533
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.8141 1.8118 1.7732 1.7286
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.9789 8.0783 7.8980 7.0238
SOUTH KOREA WON 1298.90 1327.76 1291.41 1119.49
SRI LANKA RUPEE 90.848 88.205 85.730 74.867
SWEDEN KRONA 10.3513 10.2035 10.0516 9.0925
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.7528 1.7131 1.6908 1.7190
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.203 32.940 32.622 30.772
THAILAND BAHT 45.525 45.494 43.988 38.951
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4265 1.4348 1.4445 1.5090
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 714.86 710.39 706.06 680.00
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 126.77 126.97 125.91 120.20
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 105.03 105.09 103.98 99.21
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.92 136.30 135.56 129.48
This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5.
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/). Weights for the broad index can be
found at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10/Weights; weights for the major currencies
index and the other important trading partners (OITIP) index are derived from the broad index
weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect
with the February 1, 2001, release of this report.
* U.S. dollars per currency unit.
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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The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-area currencies. These currency rates
can be derived from the dollar/euro rate by using the fixed conversion rates (in currencies
per euro) given below:
1 EURO = 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
= 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
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