Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: October 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 SEPTEMBER 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 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 September 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0406 1.0475 1.0300 1.0220
BRAZIL REAL 2.0269 2.0279 2.0296 1.7492
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9783 0.9924 1.0142 1.0025
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3200 6.3593 6.3717 6.3885
DENMARK KRONE 5.7855 6.0015 6.0590 5.4170
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2885 1.2406 1.2278 1.3747
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7540 7.7562 7.7561 7.7943
INDIA RUPEE 54.3500 55.4935 55.4248 47.6905
JAPAN YEN 78.1353 78.6909 78.9348 76.7957
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0758 3.1153 3.1653 3.0838
MEXICO PESO 12.9235 13.1793 13.3638 13.0637
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8199 0.8104 0.7986 0.8119
NORWAY KRONE 5.7467 5.9012 6.0690 5.6257
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2303 1.2480 1.2603 1.2537
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.2574 8.2596 8.2535 7.5769
SOUTH KOREA WON 1122.9911 1131.7457 1142.2781 1121.9095
SRI LANKA RUPEE 131.5105 131.9896 132.4848 110.0529
SWEDEN KRONA 6.5960 6.6758 6.9504 6.6460
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9386 0.9681 0.9783 0.8767
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.4763 29.9426 29.9729 29.7395
THAILAND BAHT 30.9442 31.3970 31.6181 30.4571
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6126 1.5722 1.5593 1.5771
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 99.1939 100.7764 101.6759 97.9894
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.5753 74.2240 75.2006 71.1694
3) OITP JAN97=100 128.1069 129.4526 130.1654 127.3082

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: October 1, 2012