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G.5(405) December 31, 2002
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 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 December November October December
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5625 0.5613 0.5502 0.5138
BRAZIL REAL 3.6266 3.5924 3.7966 2.3635
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5591 1.5715 1.5780 1.5788
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2777 8.2772 8.2772 8.2761
DENMARK KRONE 7.2877 7.4201 7.5732 8.3526
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.0193 1.0013 0.9812 0.8912
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7988 7.7994 7.7995 7.7989
INDIA RUPEE 48.14 48.29 48.39 47.93
JAPAN YEN 121.88 121.61 123.91 127.59
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 10.227 10.195 10.094 9.157
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5108 0.4973 0.4818 0.4157
NORWAY KRONE 7.1559 7.3157 7.4873 8.9713
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7531 1.7653 1.7843 1.8382
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.9462 9.6509 10.3058 11.6761
SOUTH KOREA WON 1206.59 1210.20 1240.19 1292.29
SRI LANKA RUPEE 96.704 96.426 96.402 93.194
SWEDEN KRONA 8.9328 9.0652 9.2846 10.5753
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.4390 1.4658 1.4932 1.6566
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.794 34.673 34.947 34.682
THAILAND BAHT 43.313 43.353 43.640 43.952
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5864 1.5711 1.5575 1.4413
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1328.26 1358.61 1440.50 753.64
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 125.78 126.38 127.69 127.52
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 98.96 99.83 101.24 106.30
3)OITP JAN97=100 144.45 144.43 145.28 136.62
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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