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G.5(405) November 30, 2001
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN NOVEMBER 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 November October September November
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5165 0.5042 0.5036 0.5218
BRAZIL REAL 2.5481 2.7408 2.6767 1.9483
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5922 1.5717 1.5679 1.5426
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2769 8.2768 8.2768 8.2774
DENMARK KRONE 8.3832 8.2186 8.1654 8.6992
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.8883 0.9050 0.9114 0.8552
GREECE DRACHMA N.A. N.A. N.A. 397.94
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7996 7.7999 7.7997 7.7991
INDIA RUPEE 48.04 48.05 47.75 46.82
JAPAN YEN 122.41 121.45 118.61 109.01
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8001 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.225 9.339 9.425 9.508
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4158 0.4139 0.4173 0.3990
NORWAY KRONE 8.9296 8.8329 8.7691 9.3524
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.8295 1.8113 1.7494 1.7478
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.7388 9.2804 8.6756 7.6889
SOUTH KOREA WON 1282.10 1302.36 1293.83 1156.54
SRI LANKA RUPEE 92.670 90.954 90.157 80.380
SWEDEN KRONA 10.6117 10.5661 10.6353 10.0965
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.6509 1.6357 1.6338 1.7779
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.498 34.583 34.575 32.433
THAILAND BAHT 44.411 44.750 44.331 43.791
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4356 1.4501 1.4638 1.4258
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 745.10 743.22 743.46 695.77
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 127.72 127.20 126.28 124.21
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 105.55 104.27 103.32 103.08
3)OITP JAN97=100 137.36 138.21 137.53 132.87
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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