Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: May 1, 2012

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 2012 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 2012 March 2012 February 2012 April 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0350 1.0526 1.0732 1.0588
BRAZIL REAL 1.8522 1.7953 1.7168 1.5833
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9928 0.9938 0.9967 0.9580
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3043 6.3125 6.2997 6.5267
DENMARK KRONE 5.6529 5.6294 5.6156 5.1577
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3160 1.3208 1.3238 1.4460
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7620 7.7620 7.7544 7.7716
INDIA RUPEE 51.6900 50.3635 49.1812 44.3010
JAPAN YEN 81.2524 82.4659 78.4700 83.1771
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0586 3.0444 3.0220 3.0101
MEXICO PESO 13.0559 12.7523 12.7833 11.7059
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8180 0.8201 0.8349 0.7894
NORWAY KRONE 5.7521 5.7074 5.7097 5.4015
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2510 1.2590 1.2535 1.2463
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.8329 7.6071 7.6388 6.7209
SOUTH KOREA WON 1135.0238 1126.1700 1122.6900 1083.1762
SRI LANKA RUPEE 128.4248 125.6605 117.2810 110.2129
SWEDEN KRONA 6.7359 6.7319 6.6619 6.1990
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9133 0.9131 0.9118 0.8972
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.4433 29.5158 29.5340 28.9824
THAILAND BAHT 30.8614 30.7036 30.6850 30.0424
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6000 1.5824 1.5804 1.6379
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2895 4.2896 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 99.0264 98.7267 98.1210 95.3608
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.8330 72.9721 72.2916 69.5851
3) OITP JAN97=100 127.3494 126.4562 126.0081 123.4232

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
Last update: May 1, 2012