Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: May 1, 2017
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 APRIL 2017 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 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 April 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7534 0.7622 0.7664 0.7664
BRAZIL REAL 3.1390 3.1275 3.1057 3.5634
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3437 1.3387 1.3109 1.2818
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8876 6.8940 6.8694 6.4754
DENMARK KRONE 6.9422 6.9553 6.9810 6.5591
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.0714 1.0691 1.0650 1.1346
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7737 7.7658 7.7596 7.7556
INDIA RUPEE 64.5360 65.8009 66.9726 66.4219
JAPAN YEN 110.0910 112.9165 112.9116 109.5519
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.4030 4.4358 4.4401 3.8971
MEXICO PESO 18.7672 19.2800 20.3008 17.4795
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6969 0.7006 0.7229 0.6892
NORWAY KRONE 8.5855 8.5063 8.3215 8.2082
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3983 1.4049 1.4137 1.3496
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.4508 12.9203 13.1905 14.5868
SOUTH KOREA WON 1134.1755 1133.8617 1140.4874 1145.7967
SRI LANKA RUPEE 151.8620 151.5048 150.8721 145.2019
SWEDEN KRONA 8.9616 8.9147 8.9007 8.1110
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0009 1.0015 1.0010 0.9634
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.3585 30.6487 30.8547 32.3200
THAILAND BAHT 34.4495 34.8752 34.9989 35.0629
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2639 1.2347 1.2495 1.4319
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1) BROAD JAN97=100 124.3487 125.2587 125.7806 119.4249
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 94.0015 94.4902 93.9727 89.3014
3) OITP JAN97=100 156.5475 157.9412 159.7498 151.5782

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

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Last Update: May 01, 2017