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G.5(405) February 28, 2002
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2002 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 2002 2002 2001 2001
COUNTRY UNIT February January December February
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5128 0.5170 0.5138 0.5338
BRAZIL REAL 2.4242 2.3799 2.3635 2.0060
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5964 1.5997 1.5788 1.5216
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2767 8.2771 8.2761 8.2771
DENMARK KRONE 8.5343 8.4183 8.3526 8.1103
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.8707 0.8832 0.8912 0.9205
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7996 7.7989 7.7989 7.7999
INDIA RUPEE 48.72 48.35 47.93 46.56
JAPAN YEN 133.64 132.68 127.59 116.23
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8002 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.105 9.164 9.157 9.711
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4187 0.4245 0.4157 0.4345
NORWAY KRONE 8.9492 8.9684 8.9713 8.9180
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.8312 1.8394 1.8382 1.7435
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 11.4923 11.6258 11.6761 7.8214
SOUTH KOREA WON 1320.55 1316.34 1292.29 1252.85
SRI LANKA RUPEE 93.650 93.473 93.194 87.136
SWEDEN KRONA 10.5501 10.4561 10.5753 9.7518
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.6970 1.6709 1.6566 1.6686
TAIWAN DOLLAR 35.073 35.027 34.682 32.330
THAILAND BAHT 43.854 44.036 43.952 42.665
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4227 1.4322 1.4413 1.4525
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 898.51 762.40 753.64 703.36
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 129.74 129.15 127.52 123.50
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 108.82 108.10 106.30 101.48
3)OITP JAN97=100 137.96 137.68 136.62 134.62
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, 2002, 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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