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G.5(405) May 2, 2011
Foreign Exchange Rates
The table below shows the average rates of exchange in APRIL 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 2011 2010
COUNTRY UNIT April March February April
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0588 1.0113 1.0084 0.9262
BRAZIL REAL 1.5833 1.6574 1.6664 1.7568
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9580 0.9766 0.9876 1.0052
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5267 6.5645 6.5761 6.8256
DENMARK KRONE 5.1577 5.3191 5.4596 5.5472
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4460 1.4020 1.3656 1.3417
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7716 7.7913 7.7895 7.7627
INDIA RUPEE 44.3010 44.9143 45.3795 44.4440
JAPAN YEN 83.1771 81.6470 82.5368 93.4527
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0101 3.0341 3.0453 3.2044
MEXICO PESO 11.7059 11.9963 12.0649 12.2396
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7894 0.7423 0.7620 0.7122
NORWAY KRONE 5.4015 5.5913 5.7319 5.9169
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2463 1.2678 1.2757 1.3817
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.7209 6.8976 7.1844 7.3444
SOUTH KOREA WON 1083.1762 1119.2674 1117.4368 1115.4591
SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.2129 110.3022 110.8074 113.8286
SWEDEN KRONA 6.1990 6.3493 6.4342 7.2026
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.8972 0.9185 0.9500 1.0690
TAIWAN DOLLAR 28.9824 29.4930 29.2779 31.4767
THAILAND BAHT 30.0424 30.3330 30.6953 32.2686
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6379 1.6159 1.6124 1.5332
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 95.5427 97.1432 98.1070 101.7625
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 69.7484 71.0182 72.2161 75.5678
3)OITP JAN97=100 123.5919 125.5057 125.9973 129.6967
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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