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Release Date: November 1, 2007
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G.5(405) November 1, 2007
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN OCTOBER 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 October September August October
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8996 0.8461 0.8291 0.7544
BRAZIL REAL 1.7987 1.9023 1.9620 2.1458
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9754 1.0267 1.0579 1.1285
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.5019 7.5210 7.5734 7.9018
DENMARK KRONE 5.2363 5.3563 5.4621 5.9085
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4233 1.3910 1.3626 1.2617
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7545 7.7824 7.8155 7.7849
INDIA RUPEE 39.37 40.17 40.68 45.36
JAPAN YEN 115.87 115.04 116.73 118.61
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3735 3.4691 3.4826 3.6762
MEXICO PESO 10.821 11.032 11.044 10.885
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7603 0.7188 0.7259 0.6621
NORWAY KRONE 5.4023 5.6256 5.8492 6.6591
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4650 1.5110 1.5226 1.5775
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.7574 7.1007 7.2153 7.6300
SOUTH KOREA WON 914.94 928.60 934.48 952.64
SRI LANKA RUPEE 112.858 113.342 112.184 105.718
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4439 6.6713 6.8429 7.3338
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1741 1.1852 1.2027 1.2602
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.550 33.011 32.962 33.194
THAILAND BAHT 31.525 32.057 31.796 37.281
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 2.0449 2.0184 2.0110 1.8765
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 99.80 101.93 103.33 108.21
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.93 75.91 77.51 82.36
3)OITP JAN97=100 127.98 129.94 130.72 134.79
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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