Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5A

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Release Date: January 11, 2018
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 2017 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 2017 2016 2015 2014
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7671 0.7445 0.7522 0.9034
BRAZIL REAL 3.1910 3.4839 3.3360 2.3512
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2984 1.3243 1.2791 1.1043
CHINA,P.R. YUAN 6.7569 6.6400 6.2827 6.1620
DENMARK KRONE 6.5957 6.7276 6.7263 5.6151
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1301 1.1072 1.1096 1.3297
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7926 7.7620 7.7524 7.7545
INDIA RUPEE 65.07 67.16 64.11 61.00
JAPAN YEN 112.10 108.66 121.05 105.74
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.2982 4.1372 3.9041 3.2697
MEXICO PESO 18.884 18.667 15.873 13.302
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7111 0.6976 0.7001 0.8313
NORWAY KRONE 8.2679 8.3936 8.0681 6.2969
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3802 1.3800 1.3746 1.2665
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.2943 14.6821 12.7645 10.8420
SOUTH KOREA WON 1129.04 1159.34 1130.96 1052.29
SRI LANKA RUPEE 152.435 145.735 135.869 130.536
SWEDEN KRONA 8.5430 8.5541 8.4350 6.8576
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9842 0.9848 0.9628 0.9147
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.402 32.226 31.744 30.299
THAILAND BAHT 33.913 35.264 34.241 32.461
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2890 1.3555 1.5284 1.6484
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.97 9.28 6.28 6.28
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1) BROAD JAN97=100 122.13 122.48 117.06 104.03
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 91.08 91.51 90.98 78.34
3) OITP JAN97=100 155.31 155.43 144.34 131.25

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g5a.
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:

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Last Update: January 11, 2018