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G.5(405) June 1, 2006
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 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 May April March May
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7639 0.7369 0.7266 0.7663
BRAZIL REAL 2.1697 2.1281 2.1528 2.4554
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1100 1.1441 1.1573 1.2555
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.0131 8.0143 8.0350 8.2765
DENMARK KRONE 5.8398 6.0798 6.2025 5.8628
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2767 1.2273 1.2028 1.2697
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7538 7.7561 7.7591 7.7914
INDIA RUPEE 45.20 44.82 44.34 43.41
JAPAN YEN 111.73 117.07 117.28 106.60
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.6091 3.6626 3.7040 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 11.091 11.049 10.749 10.976
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6311 0.6220 0.6342 0.7191
NORWAY KRONE 6.1040 6.3922 6.6317 6.3656
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5755 1.6008 1.6211 1.6507
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.3128 6.0811 6.2436 6.3267
SOUTH KOREA WON 940.82 952.60 974.71 1001.84
SRI LANKA RUPEE 102.838 102.635 102.648 99.791
SWEDEN KRONA 7.3050 7.6005 7.8109 7.2382
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2190 1.2830 1.3050 1.2172
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.737 32.288 32.459 31.265
THAILAND BAHT 37.947 37.952 38.947 39.800
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.8687 1.7680 1.7442 1.8559
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.55 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 107.45 109.83 110.63 110.48
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 80.78 84.05 85.17 83.34
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.56 135.80 135.88 138.87
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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