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G.5(405) May 1, 2003
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN APRIL 2003 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 2003 2003 2003 2002
COUNTRY UNIT April March February April
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6100 0.6015 0.5956 0.5352
BRAZIL REAL 3.1090 3.4567 3.5955 2.3227
CANADA DOLLAR 1.4582 1.4761 1.5121 1.5815
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2772 8.2773 8.2780 8.2772
DENMARK KRONE 6.8381 6.8807 6.8920 8.3942
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.0862 1.0797 1.0785 0.8860
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7996 7.7991 7.7995 7.8000
INDIA RUPEE 47.39 47.68 47.75 48.94
JAPAN YEN 119.90 118.69 119.34 130.77
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 10.589 10.905 10.945 9.165
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5518 0.5537 0.5539 0.4428
NORWAY KRONE 7.2032 7.2760 7.0004 8.6102
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7771 1.7551 1.7451 1.8285
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.6634 8.0506 8.2858 11.0832
SOUTH KOREA WON 1231.10 1237.20 1190.37 1318.09
SRI LANKA RUPEE 97.004 96.943 96.879 96.030
SWEDEN KRONA 8.4314 8.5440 8.4837 10.3070
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.3783 1.3614 1.3602 1.6542
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.824 34.721 34.734 34.917
THAILAND BAHT 42.929 42.783 42.897 43.442
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5739 1.5825 1.6079 1.4429
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1600.00 1600.00 1736.21 871.38
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 122.54 123.56 124.12 128.80
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 93.98 94.28 95.02 106.82
3)OITP JAN97=100 145.15 147.26 147.35 138.82
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 January 30, 2003, 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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