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G.5(405) March 1, 2011
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2011 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 2011 2011 2010 2010
COUNTRY UNIT February January December February
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0084 0.9962 0.9929 0.8857
BRAZIL REAL 1.6664 1.6745 1.6955 1.8420
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9876 0.9939 1.0081 1.0572
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5761 6.5964 6.6497 6.8285
DENMARK KRONE 5.4596 5.5749 5.6366 5.4414
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3656 1.3371 1.3221 1.3680
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7895 7.7803 7.7736 7.7670
INDIA RUPEE 45.3795 45.3750 45.1000 46.2732
JAPAN YEN 82.5368 82.6250 83.3376 90.1395
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0453 3.0595 3.1283 3.4139
MEXICO PESO 12.0649 12.1280 12.3902 12.9396
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7620 0.7656 0.7511 0.6973
NORWAY KRONE 5.7319 5.8561 5.9833 5.9182
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2757 1.2863 1.3063 1.4122
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.1844 6.9239 6.8237 7.6680
SOUTH KOREA WON 1117.4368 1118.8675 1145.4833 1155.6553
SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.8074 110.8200 111.0081 114.5079
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4342 6.6673 6.8524 7.2683
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9500 0.9565 0.9689 1.0722
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.2779 29.1105 29.9014 32.0621
THAILAND BAHT 30.6953 30.5455 30.0857 33.1221
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6124 1.5782 1.5595 1.5618
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2898 4.2893 4.2893
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 97.9930 98.7859 99.9363 102.9847
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.0050 72.9456 73.8097 75.4875
3)OITP JAN97=100 126.1404 126.5698 128.0189 132.8733
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 May 2009 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
= .585274 CYPRUS POUND
= 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
= 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
= 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
= 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
= .787564 IRISH POUNDS
= 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
= 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
= .429300 MALTESE LIRA
= 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
= 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
= 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR
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