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G.5(405) January 4, 2010
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 2009 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 2009 2009 2009 2008
COUNTRY UNIT December November October December
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9021 0.9197 0.9067 0.6719
BRAZIL REAL 1.7508 1.7268 1.7378 2.3954
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0537 1.0593 1.0547 1.2337
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8275 6.8271 6.8267 6.8539
DENMARK KRONE 5.1060 4.9914 5.0220 5.5239
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4579 1.4908 1.4821 1.3511
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7526 7.7497 7.7497 7.7504
INDIA RUPEE 46.5273 46.5305 46.6524 48.5132
JAPAN YEN 89.9509 89.2674 90.3671 91.2750
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4099 3.3886 3.4016 3.5483
MEXICO PESO 12.8622 13.1115 13.2275 13.4167
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7169 0.7301 0.7386 0.5597
NORWAY KRONE 5.7708 5.6430 5.6428 7.0159
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3962 1.3888 1.3974 1.4769
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4848 7.5096 7.4871 9.9227
SOUTH KOREA WON 1163.3109 1162.8368 1173.7405 1361.5727
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.2836 114.4853 114.7838 111.4464
SWEDEN KRONA 7.1384 6.9267 6.9550 8.0124
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0301 1.0131 1.0213 1.1404
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.2459 32.3189 32.2910 33.1555
THAILAND BAHT 33.2045 33.2621 33.3900 35.0086
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6226 1.6599 1.6212 1.4854
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1430 2.1446 2.1446
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 101.7502 101.2873 101.7775 108.4748
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.9795 73.1487 73.5597 80.6853
3)OITP JAN97=100 132.5444 132.8137 133.3550 138.5069
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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