Skip to Content
Release Date: July 1, 2002
Release dates |
Dollar indexes, summary measures |
Currency weights
Current release Other formats:
Screen reader |
ASCII
G.5(405) June 28, 2002
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JUNE 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 2002 2001
COUNTRY UNIT June May April June
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5682 0.5498 0.5352 0.5180
BRAZIL REAL 2.7144 2.4753 2.3227 2.3788
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5318 1.5502 1.5815 1.5245
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2767 8.2770 8.2772 8.2770
DENMARK KRONE 7.7775 8.1098 8.3942 8.7397
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.9561 0.9170 0.8860 0.8530
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8000 7.7994 7.8000 7.7997
INDIA RUPEE 48.98 49.02 48.94 47.04
JAPAN YEN 123.29 126.38 130.77 122.35
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.767 9.510 9.165 9.088
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4886 0.4610 0.4428 0.4141
NORWAY KRONE 7.7533 8.2050 8.6102 9.3014
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7831 1.8004 1.8285 1.8170
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 10.1841 10.1615 11.0832 8.0595
SOUTH KOREA WON 1219.70 1262.20 1318.09 1295.05
SRI LANKA RUPEE 96.408 96.318 96.030 90.371
SWEDEN KRONA 9.5376 10.0642 10.3070 10.7930
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.5399 1.5889 1.6542 1.7856
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.889 34.454 34.917 34.328
THAILAND BAHT 42.160 42.816 43.442 45.263
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4837 1.4598 1.4429 1.4020
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1212.07 985.80 871.38 717.27
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 125.96 127.35 128.95 127.12
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 101.42 104.09 107.03 105.93
3)OITP JAN97=100 140.70 139.71 138.86 136.24
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.
For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form,
please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244.
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
Release dates |
Dollar indexes, summary measures |
Currency weights
Current release Other formats:
Screen reader |
ASCII
Statistical releases