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G.5(405) June 30, 2004
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JUNE 2004 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 2004 2004 2004 2003
COUNTRY UNIT June May April June
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6937 0.7039 0.7443 0.6652
BRAZIL REAL 3.1293 3.1023 2.9079 2.8887
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3578 1.3789 1.3420 1.3525
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2767 8.2771 8.2769 8.2771
DENMARK KRONE 6.1220 6.2021 6.2104 6.3620
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2146 1.2000 1.1989 1.1674
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7980 7.7971 7.7970 7.7988
INDIA RUPEE 45.50 45.18 43.89 46.70
JAPAN YEN 109.43 112.20 107.66 118.33
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 11.393 11.520 11.270 10.503
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6284 0.6151 0.6415 0.5815
NORWAY KRONE 6.8279 6.8428 6.9263 7.0093
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7136 1.7124 1.6849 1.7351
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.4216 6.7996 6.5747 7.8588
SOUTH KOREA WON 1159.02 1177.88 1152.86 1194.14
SRI LANKA RUPEE 100.930 98.929 98.132 97.236
SWEDEN KRONA 7.5323 7.6097 7.6496 7.8116
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2503 1.2839 1.2969 1.3196
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.568 33.444 32.970 34.633
THAILAND BAHT 40.827 40.560 39.453 41.675
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.8279 1.7860 1.8031 1.6609
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1920.00 1919.76 1920.00 1600.00
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 115.91 117.08 115.12 117.36
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 87.57 89.03 87.44 91.15
3)OITP JAN97=100 145.52 145.84 143.58 142.41
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 (OITP) 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 December 31, 2003, release of this report. The source for exchange rates not listed in the
table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Reuters Limited.
* 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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