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G.5(405) August 30, 2002
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN AUGUST 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 August July June August
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5413 0.5538 0.5682 0.5246
BRAZIL REAL 3.1082 2.9414 2.7144 2.5122
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5694 1.5456 1.5318 1.5399
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2767 8.2768 8.2767 8.2770
DENMARK KRONE 7.5948 7.4807 7.7775 8.2632
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.9781 0.9935 0.9561 0.9014
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8008 7.8000 7.8000 7.7997
INDIA RUPEE 48.62 48.79 48.98 47.17
JAPAN YEN 118.99 117.90 123.29 121.37
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.839 9.779 9.767 9.133
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5090 0.4809 0.4886 0.4314
NORWAY KRONE 7.6042 7.4694 7.7533 8.9427
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7553 1.7524 1.7831 1.7613
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 10.5878 10.1032 10.1841 8.3115
SOUTH KOREA WON 1197.51 1179.99 1219.70 1285.65
SRI LANKA RUPEE 96.280 96.265 96.408 89.993
SWEDEN KRONA 9.4610 9.3474 9.5376 10.3329
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4972 1.4718 1.5399 1.6808
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.884 33.272 33.889 34.639
THAILAND BAHT 42.193 41.257 42.160 44.907
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5368 1.5565 1.4837 1.4372
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1379.73 1317.38 1212.07 731.97
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 125.64 124.20 125.96 125.62
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 100.35 98.97 101.42 103.84
3)OITP JAN97=100 141.69 140.47 140.70 135.95
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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