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G.5(405) October 31, 2002
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN OCTOBER 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 October September August October
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5502 0.5465 0.5413 0.5042
BRAZIL REAL 3.7966 3.3548 3.1082 2.7408
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5780 1.5761 1.5694 1.5717
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2772 8.2760 8.2767 8.2768
DENMARK KRONE 7.5732 7.5752 7.5948 8.2186
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.9812 0.9806 0.9781 0.9050
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7995 7.7999 7.8008 7.7999
INDIA RUPEE 48.39 48.46 48.62 48.05
JAPAN YEN 123.91 121.08 118.99 121.45
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8001
MEXICO PESO 10.094 10.071 9.839 9.339
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4818 0.4702 0.4635 0.4139
NORWAY KRONE 7.4873 7.5018 7.6042 8.8329
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7843 1.7682 1.7553 1.8113
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 10.3058 10.5967 10.5878 9.2804
SOUTH KOREA WON 1240.19 1211.61 1197.51 1302.36
SRI LANKA RUPEE 96.402 96.207 96.280 90.954
SWEDEN KRONA 9.2846 9.3400 9.4610 10.5661
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4932 1.4931 1.4972 1.6357
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.947 34.573 33.884 34.583
THAILAND BAHT 43.640 42.893 42.193 44.750
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5575 1.5563 1.5368 1.4501
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1440.50 1458.39 1379.73 743.22
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 127.69 126.67 125.64 126.86
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 101.24 100.68 100.35 104.37
3)OITP JAN97=100 145.28 143.71 141.69 138.08
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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