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G.5(405) May 1, 2007
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN APRIL 2007 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 2007 2007 2007 2006
COUNTRY UNIT April March February April
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8273 0.7932 0.7830 0.7369
BRAZIL REAL 2.0302 2.0883 2.0939 2.1281
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1350 1.1682 1.1710 1.1441
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.7247 7.7369 7.7502 8.0143
DENMARK KRONE 5.5155 5.6232 5.6981 6.0798
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3513 1.3246 1.3080 1.2273
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8154 7.8132 7.8114 7.7561
INDIA RUPEE 42.02 43.79 44.02 44.82
JAPAN YEN 118.93 117.26 120.50 117.07
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4364 3.4894 3.4949 3.6626
MEXICO PESO 10.980 11.114 10.995 11.049
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7345 0.6995 0.6934 0.6220
NORWAY KRONE 6.0098 6.1401 6.1860 6.3922
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5150 1.5242 1.5333 1.6008
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.1026 7.3525 7.1755 6.0811
SOUTH KOREA WON 930.69 942.88 936.90 952.60
SRI LANKA RUPEE 109.360 109.294 108.684 102.635
SWEDEN KRONA 6.8371 7.0171 7.0200 7.6005
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2124 1.2178 1.2393 1.2830
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.145 33.010 32.968 32.288
THAILAND BAHT 32.421 32.642 33.888 37.952
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.9879 1.9474 1.9589 1.7680
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 105.30 106.67 107.23 109.64
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 79.87 81.23 82.07 83.88
3)OITP JAN97=100 131.64 132.80 132.77 135.80
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 "Indexes of the Foreign
Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, 91:1 (Winter 2005), pp. 1-8,
(http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2005/winter05_index.pdf). 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 January 2007 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
= 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR
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