Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: January 4, 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 DECEMBER 2015 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	December 2015	November 2015	October 2015	December 2014
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7247	0.7146	0.7200	0.8257
BRAZIL	REAL	3.8808	3.7858	3.8752	2.6419
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3713	1.3279	1.3072	1.1532
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.4491	6.3640	6.3505	6.1886
DENMARK	KRONE	6.8530	6.9555	6.6453	6.0351
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.0889	1.0727	1.1228	1.2329
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7507	7.7506	7.7499	7.7541
INDIA	RUPEE	66.5023	66.1000	65.0262	62.7071
JAPAN	YEN	121.6350	122.6432	120.0481	119.3233
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.2791	4.3131	4.2557	3.4768
MEXICO	PESO	17.0696	16.6306	16.5697	14.5205
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.6748	0.6554	0.6693	0.7766
NORWAY	KRONE	8.6971	8.6394	8.2700	7.2772
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.4081	1.4143	1.4005	1.3150
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	15.0024	14.1449	13.4928	11.4975
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1169.9464	1153.4721	1143.1990	1102.6224
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	143.3350	141.9637	140.8510	131.0786
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.4938	8.6829	8.3314	7.6289
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9951	1.0098	0.9687	0.9753
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	32.7905	32.6084	32.4367	31.3519
THAILAND	BAHT	35.9936	35.7784	35.6790	32.8876
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.4981	1.5194	1.5343	1.5644
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	122.3759	121.0840	119.2826	110.3957
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	94.1403	93.9403	91.2567	84.1971
3) OITP	JAN97=100	152.1709	149.6108	148.9360	138.1587

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