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G.5(405) January 31, 2005
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JANUARY 2005 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 2005 2004 2004 2004
COUNTRY UNIT January December November January
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7668 0.7675 0.7704 0.7717
BRAZIL REAL 2.6895 2.7150 2.7877 2.8533
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2248 1.2189 1.1968 1.2958
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2765 8.2765 8.2765 8.2770
DENMARK KRONE 5.6699 5.5449 5.7178 5.8952
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3123 1.3406 1.2997 1.2638
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7948 7.7760 7.7755 7.7663
INDIA RUPEE 43.62 43.85 45.03 45.46
JAPAN YEN 103.34 103.81 104.70 106.27
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 11.263 11.201 11.371 10.920
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7065 0.7149 0.7009 0.6738
NORWAY KRONE 6.2672 6.1355 6.2700 6.8117
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.6377 1.6402 1.6505 1.6965
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 5.9587 5.7235 6.0305 6.9398
SOUTH KOREA WON 1037.98 1050.37 1086.44 1183.35
SRI LANKA RUPEE 98.929 104.748 104.632 98.009
SWEDEN KRONA 6.8991 6.6969 6.9257 7.2334
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1792 1.1465 1.1711 1.2391
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.847 32.170 32.777 33.669
THAILAND BAHT 38.739 39.183 40.282 39.124
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.8797 1.9286 1.8607 1.8255
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1915.20 1915.20 1915.20 1600.00
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 109.55 108.93 110.19 112.54
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 81.12 80.19 81.10 84.43
3)OITP JAN97=100 141.00 141.20 142.89 142.54
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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