Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

August 2, 2012

G5/H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates DDP and data correction
The monthly series for nominal and real monthly broad and OITP (Other Important Trading Partners) indexes released on August 1, 2012 contained an error due to data processing. Updates to the files and to the Data Download Program (DDP) are now available.

Release Date: August 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 JULY 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 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 July 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0300 0.9986 0.9980 1.0781
BRAZIL REAL 2.0296 2.0482 1.9810 1.5625
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0142 1.0280 1.0097 0.9553
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3717 6.3633 6.3242 6.4575
DENMARK KRONE 6.0590 5.9266 5.8061 5.2230
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2278 1.2541 1.2806 1.4275
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7561 7.7590 7.7640 7.7892
INDIA RUPEE 55.4248 55.9424 54.3314 44.3960
JAPAN YEN 78.9348 79.3152 79.6668 79.2425
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1653 3.1783 3.0978 2.9924
MEXICO PESO 13.3638 13.9193 13.6199 11.6741
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7986 0.7806 0.7748 0.8480
NORWAY KRONE 6.0690 6.0146 5.9151 5.4502
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2603 1.2784 1.2620 1.2158
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.2535 8.3818 8.1506 6.7871
SOUTH KOREA WON 1142.2781 1163.3886 1156.6914 1057.4250
SRI LANKA RUPEE 132.4848 131.8519 129.0045 109.4570
SWEDEN KRONA 6.9504 7.0746 7.0280 6.3957
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9783 0.9576 0.9383 0.8214
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.9729 29.9052 29.4668 28.8350
THAILAND BAHT 31.6181 31.6152 31.2850 30.0475
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5593 1.5556 1.5924 1.6158
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 101.6750 102.1622 100.7245 94.6181
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.2006 75.0265 73.9254 69.1159
3) OITP JAN97=100 130.1634 131.5415 129.7544 122.3575

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: August 1, 2012