Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: November 1, 2016

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in OCTOBER 2016 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.

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	October 2016	September 2016	August 2016	October 2015
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7615	0.7591	0.7629	0.7200
BRAZIL	REAL	3.1854	3.2532	3.2086	3.8752
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3251	1.3108	1.2998	1.3072
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.7303	6.6702	6.6466	6.3505
DENMARK	KRONE	6.7553	6.6390	6.6396	6.6453
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.1014	1.1218	1.1207	1.1228
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7570	7.7564	7.7560	7.7499
INDIA	RUPEE	66.7415	66.7138	66.9035	65.0262
JAPAN	YEN	103.9075	101.7843	101.2383	120.0481
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.1738	4.1059	4.0219	4.2557
MEXICO	PESO	18.8912	19.2436	18.4742	16.5697
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7153	0.7312	0.7235	0.6693
NORWAY	KRONE	8.1722	8.1957	8.3009	8.2700
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3847	1.3591	1.3476	1.4005
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	13.9273	14.0264	13.7828	13.4928
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1128.1660	1108.3638	1110.0183	1143.1990
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	146.7600	145.4581	145.2035	140.8510
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.8210	8.5311	8.4693	8.3314
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9876	0.9732	0.9711	0.9687
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	31.5860	31.4562	31.5374	32.4367
THAILAND	BAHT	35.0545	34.7133	34.7122	35.6790
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.2330	1.3140	1.3101	1.5343
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	9.9750	9.9750	9.9750	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	122.9086	121.7757	120.8472	119.1427
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	91.9193	90.0988	89.8449	91.0665
3) OITP	JAN97=100	155.9852	155.7933	154.0481	148.7602

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
= 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
= 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