Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: September 1, 2015

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 AUGUST 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	August 2015	July 2015	June 2015	August 2014
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7295	0.7407	0.7715	0.9309
BRAZIL	REAL	3.5154	3.2288	3.1117	2.2685
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3147	1.2863	1.2365	1.0926
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3383	6.2085	6.2052	6.1541
DENMARK	KRONE	6.7035	6.7850	6.6460	5.5987
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.1136	1.0997	1.1226	1.3315
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7530	7.7514	7.7528	7.7504
INDIA	RUPEE	65.0971	63.6045	63.7809	60.8738
JAPAN	YEN	123.0038	123.3109	123.7186	102.9438
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.0623	3.8020	3.7371	3.1766
MEXICO	PESO	16.5340	15.9515	15.4792	13.1436
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.6549	0.6650	0.6985	0.8437
NORWAY	KRONE	8.2524	8.1255	7.8111	6.1935
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3981	1.3616	1.3455	1.2484
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	12.9012	12.4602	12.2913	10.6632
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1178.1438	1146.5468	1112.8832	1024.5500
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	133.8519	133.6818	133.9382	130.1748
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.5515	8.5325	8.2653	6.8983
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9685	0.9547	0.9321	0.9098
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	32.1914	31.1909	30.8982	29.9729
THAILAND	BAHT	35.3938	34.3518	33.7186	32.0048
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5578	1.5560	1.5576	1.6700
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	119.4314	117.1193	115.1564	103.0464
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	91.9018	91.6450	89.7283	77.5510
3) OITP	JAN97=100	148.4666	143.7568	141.7987	130.2476

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