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G.5(405) August 29, 2003
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN AUGUST 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 August July June August
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6518 0.6607 0.6652 0.5413
BRAZIL REAL 3.0053 2.8833 2.8887 3.1082
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3963 1.3821 1.3525 1.5694
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2770 8.2773 8.2771 8.2767
DENMARK KRONE 6.6653 6.5425 6.3620 7.5948
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1155 1.1365 1.1674 0.9781
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7990 7.7990 7.7988 7.8008
INDIA RUPEE 45.96 46.22 46.70 48.62
JAPAN YEN 118.66 118.70 118.33 118.99
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 10.783 10.458 10.503 9.839
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5829 0.5864 0.5815 0.4635
NORWAY KRONE 7.4096 7.2924 7.0093 7.6042
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7533 1.7551 1.7351 1.7553
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.3945 7.5458 7.8588 10.5878
SOUTH KOREA WON 1178.60 1181.16 1194.14 1197.51
SRI LANKA RUPEE 96.975 97.153 97.236 96.280
SWEDEN KRONA 8.2821 8.0929 7.8116 9.4610
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.3811 1.3611 1.3196 1.4972
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.318 34.396 34.633 33.884
THAILAND BAHT 41.656 41.808 41.675 42.193
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5939 1.6221 1.6609 1.5368
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1600.00 1600.00 1600.00 1379.73
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 120.43 119.11 117.93 125.65
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 91.48 90.42 88.68 100.15
3)OITP JAN97=100 144.32 142.84 143.07 142.07
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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