Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5A

Current Release

Release Date: January 2, 2015

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5A Annual

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

THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN 2014 TOGETHER WITH COMPARABLE FIGURES FOR OTHER YEARS. 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	2014	2013	2012	2011
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9034	0.9683	1.0359	1.0332
BRAZIL	REAL	2.3512	2.1570	1.9535	1.6723
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.1043	1.0300	0.9995	0.9887
CHINA,P.R.	YUAN	6.1620	6.1478	6.3093	6.4630
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6151	5.6170	5.7922	5.3535
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3297	1.3281	1.2859	1.3931
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7545	7.7565	7.7569	7.7841
INDIA	RUPEE	61.00	58.51	53.37	46.58
JAPAN	YEN	105.74	97.60	79.82	79.70
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2697	3.1488	3.0862	3.0564
MEXICO	PESO	13.302	12.758	13.154	12.427
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8313	0.8204	0.8105	0.7920
NORWAY	KRONE	6.2969	5.8772	5.8181	5.6022
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2665	1.2511	1.2492	1.2565
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.8420	9.6436	8.2014	7.2510
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1052.29	1094.67	1126.16	1106.94
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.536	129.046	127.539	110.469
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.8576	6.5124	6.7721	6.4878
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9147	0.9269	0.9377	0.8862
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.299	29.680	29.558	29.382
THAILAND	BAHT	32.461	30.696	31.055	30.462
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6484	1.5642	1.5853	1.6043
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.28	6.07	4.29	4.29
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	104.15	100.98	99.81	97.15
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	78.40	75.93	73.54	70.83
3) OITP	JAN97=100	131.61	127.76	128.24	125.74

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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 200,5), pp. 1-8 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. 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 euro-area curriencies. These currency rates can be derived from the 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