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G.5(405) May 30, 2003
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 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 May April March May
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6468 0.6100 0.6015 0.5498
BRAZIL REAL 2.9517 3.1090 3.4567 2.4753
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3840 1.4582 1.4761 1.5502
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2769 8.2772 8.2773 8.2770
DENMARK KRONE 6.4268 6.8381 6.8807 8.1098
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1556 1.0862 1.0797 0.9170
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7991 7.7996 7.7991 7.7994
INDIA RUPEE 47.11 47.39 47.68 49.02
JAPAN YEN 117.37 119.90 118.69 126.38
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 10.253 10.589 10.905 9.510
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5756 0.5518 0.5537 0.4610
NORWAY KRONE 6.8145 7.2032 7.2760 8.2050
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7357 1.7771 1.7551 1.8004
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.6604 7.6634 8.0506 10.1615
SOUTH KOREA WON 1201.23 1231.10 1237.20 1262.20
SRI LANKA RUPEE 97.230 97.004 96.943 96.318
SWEDEN KRONA 7.9213 8.4314 8.5440 10.0642
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.3111 1.3783 1.3614 1.5889
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.697 34.824 34.721 34.454
THAILAND BAHT 42.217 42.929 42.783 42.816
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6224 1.5739 1.5825 1.4598
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1600.00 1600.00 1600.00 985.80
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 118.54 122.54 123.56 127.27
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 89.67 93.98 94.28 103.89
3)OITP JAN97=100 142.75 145.15 147.26 139.83
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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