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G.5(405) April 3, 2006
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MARCH 2006 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 2006 2006 2006 2005
COUNTRY UNIT March February January March
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7266 0.7418 0.7505 0.7848
BRAZIL REAL 2.1528 2.1587 2.2666 2.7061
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1573 1.1489 1.1572 1.2160
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.0350 8.0512 8.0654 8.2765
DENMARK KRONE 6.2025 6.2514 6.1530 5.6488
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2028 1.1940 1.2126 1.3185
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7591 7.7593 7.7537 7.7994
INDIA RUPEE 44.34 44.23 44.20 43.59
JAPAN YEN 117.28 117.86 115.48 105.25
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.7040 3.7276 3.7530 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 10.749 10.484 10.542 11.155
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6342 0.6735 0.6872 0.7300
NORWAY KRONE 6.6317 6.7526 6.6287 6.2116
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.6211 1.6286 1.6310 1.6308
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.2436 6.1153 6.0760 6.0328
SOUTH KOREA WON 974.71 969.84 981.44 1007.78
SRI LANKA RUPEE 102.648 102.194 102.016 99.390
SWEDEN KRONA 7.8109 7.8226 7.6697 6.8954
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.3050 1.3052 1.2773 1.1756
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.459 32.319 32.035 31.106
THAILAND BAHT 38.947 39.343 39.519 38.594
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.7442 1.7480 1.7686 1.9043
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.62 2144.64 2124.65
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 110.63 110.46 110.18 109.05
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 85.17 85.22 84.44 80.88
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.88 135.35 136.02 139.70
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 2005 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 Bloomberg.
* 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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