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Release Date: January 2, 2002
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G.5(405) January 2, 2002
DECEMBER 2001
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 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 December November October December
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5138 0.5165 0.5042 0.5466
BRAZIL REAL 2.3635 2.5481 2.7408 1.9632
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5788 1.5922 1.5717 1.5219
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2761 8.2769 8.2768 8.2771
DENMARK KRONE 8.3526 8.3832 8.2186 8.3059
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.8912 0.8883 0.9050 0.8983
GREECE DRACHMA N.A. N.A. N.A. 379.58
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7989 7.7996 7.7999 7.7991
INDIA RUPEE 47.93 48.04 48.05 46.78
JAPAN YEN 127.59 122.41 121.45 112.21
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8001 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.157 9.225 9.339 9.467
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4157 0.4158 0.4139 0.4297
NORWAY KRONE 8.9713 8.9296 8.8329 9.0616
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.8382 1.8295 1.8113 1.7361
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 11.6761 9.7388 9.2804 7.6439
SOUTH KOREA WON 1292.29 1282.10 1302.36 1216.94
SRI LANKA RUPEE 93.194 92.670 90.954 82.030
SWEDEN KRONA 10.5753 10.6117 10.5661 9.6604
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.6566 1.6509 1.6357 1.6855
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.682 34.498 34.583 33.123
THAILAND BAHT 43.952 44.411 44.750 43.246
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4413 1.4356 1.4501 1.4629
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 753.64 745.10 743.22 698.85
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 127.91 127.72 127.20 123.28
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 106.19 105.55 104.27 101.26
3)OITP JAN97=100 136.78 137.36 138.21 133.61
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 (OITP) index are derived from the broad index
weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effec
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.
The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-area currencies. These currency rates can
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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