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G.5(405) September 1, 2006
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN AUGUST 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 August July June August
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7631 0.7528 0.7399 0.7614
BRAZIL REAL 2.1553 2.1883 2.2493 2.3609
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1182 1.1294 1.1137 1.2043
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.9722 7.9897 8.0042 8.1017
DENMARK KRONE 5.8236 5.8826 5.8897 6.0665
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2810 1.2681 1.2661 1.2295
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7762 7.7734 7.7636 7.7709
INDIA RUPEE 46.45 46.37 45.89 43.55
JAPAN YEN 115.92 115.77 114.63 110.61
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.6730 3.6679 3.6638 3.7589
MEXICO PESO 10.873 10.983 11.393 10.686
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6348 0.6178 0.6190 0.6956
NORWAY KRONE 6.2423 6.2617 6.2070 6.4367
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5754 1.5837 1.5912 1.6623
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.9503 7.0688 6.9738 6.4599
SOUTH KOREA WON 960.95 950.81 954.45 1021.68
SRI LANKA RUPEE 103.669 103.957 103.525 100.738
SWEDEN KRONA 7.1890 7.2654 7.2949 7.5951
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2318 1.2376 1.2321 1.2629
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.761 32.617 32.440 32.076
THAILAND BAHT 37.587 37.969 38.349 41.132
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.8941 1.8443 1.8435 1.7944
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.57 2144.60 2144.60
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 107.77 108.51 108.76 110.69
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 81.33 82.09 81.67 84.20
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.39 135.91 137.38 137.80
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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