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G.5(405) February 1, 2008
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JANUARY 2008 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 2008 2007 2007 2007
COUNTRY UNIT January December November January
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8823 0.8719 0.8961 0.7826
BRAZIL REAL 1.7710 1.7852 1.7669 2.1376
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0099 1.0021 0.9672 1.1763
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.2405 7.3682 7.4210 7.7876
DENMARK KRONE 5.0575 5.1235 5.0766 5.7364
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4728 1.4559 1.4683 1.2993
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8044 7.7983 7.7774 7.8000
INDIA RUPEE 39.27 39.38 39.33 44.21
JAPAN YEN 107.82 112.45 111.07 120.45
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.2653 3.3324 3.3588 3.5065
MEXICO PESO 10.906 10.846 10.881 10.956
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7740 0.7690 0.7631 0.6947
NORWAY KRONE 5.3993 5.5000 5.4156 6.3656
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4299 1.4487 1.4466 1.5373
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.9962 6.8376 6.7049 7.1898
SOUTH KOREA WON 942.06 931.10 918.81 936.76
SRI LANKA RUPEE 108.156 108.891 110.418 108.522
SWEDEN KRONA 6.3978 6.4764 6.3242 6.9901
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1006 1.1402 1.1233 1.2431
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.359 32.412 32.328 32.770
THAILAND BAHT 30.305 30.158 31.348 35.189
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.9702 2.0161 2.0701 1.9587
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.14 2.14 2.14 2.14
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 98.48 99.27 98.37 107.59
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.06 73.69 72.20 82.37
3)OITP JAN97=100 126.08 126.99 127.40 133.18
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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