Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: August 27, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY CURRENCY Aug. 20 Aug. 21 Aug. 22 Aug. 23 Aug. 24
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0457 1.0493 1.0446 1.0479 1.0411
BRAZIL REAL 2.0196 2.0171 2.0206 2.0242 2.0213
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9890 0.9864 0.9928 0.9928 0.9919
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3592 6.3559 6.3515 6.3535 6.3542
DENMARK KRONE 6.0315 5.9693 5.9701 5.9189 5.9420
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2343 1.2472 1.2472 1.2583 1.2533
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7573 7.7570 7.7565 7.7564 7.7567
INDIA RUPEE 55.5000 55.4600 55.5000 55.1400 55.4100
JAPAN YEN 79.4100 79.4300 79.1900 78.4600 78.6500
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1315 3.1275 3.1175 3.0930 3.0985
MEXICO PESO 13.1160 13.1086 13.1602 13.1375 13.1727
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8101 0.8120 0.8098 0.8162 0.8116
NORWAY KRONE 5.9230 5.8775 5.8840 5.8222 5.8203
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2532 1.2495 1.2512 1.2460 1.2491
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.3013 8.2433 8.3075 8.2821 8.3867
SOUTH KOREA WON 1134.9300 1130.3700 1135.5600 1131.3500 1134.1500
SRI LANKA RUPEE 132.0000 132.0000 132.2000 132.3000 132.1000
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6680 6.6537 6.6662 6.6023 6.5906
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9730 0.9630 0.9628 0.9542 0.9581
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.9800 29.9100 29.9400 29.9600 29.9400
THAILAND BAHT 31.4800 31.3900 31.3800 31.1400 31.1700
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5707 1.5788 1.5800 1.5882 1.5815
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.8966 100.5726 100.6945 100.3467 100.5210
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 74.4257 74.0197 74.1296 73.6956 73.8619
3) OITP JAN97=100 129.4466 129.2669 129.3951 129.2005 129.3705
ND = No data for this date.

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 of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect with the May 2010 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 L.P.

* 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.

The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-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
Last update: August 27, 2012