Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: May 29, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	May. 21	May. 22	May. 23	May. 24	May. 25
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9853	0.9874	0.9709	0.9774	0.9778
BRAZIL	REAL	2.0455	2.0460	2.0675	2.0306	1.9917
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0223	1.0191	1.0274	1.0274	1.0285
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3277	6.3223	6.3343	6.3449	6.3439
DENMARK	KRONE	5.8202	5.8343	5.9113	5.9060	5.9352
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2769	1.2735	1.2569	1.2583	1.2518
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7647	7.7652	7.7642	7.7640	7.7629
INDIA	RUPEE	54.9700	55.3400	55.9500	55.5500	55.3500
JAPAN	YEN	79.3100	79.9800	79.3300	79.4700	79.6400
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1320	3.1180	3.1430	3.1470	3.1526
MEXICO	PESO	13.7925	13.7420	14.0294	14.0018	14.0114
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7601	0.7609	0.7470	0.7534	0.7558
NORWAY	KRONE	5.9546	5.9452	6.0096	6.0056	6.0133
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2725	1.2691	1.2801	1.2762	1.2781
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.2745	8.2824	8.4371	8.3515	8.3800
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1167.0000	1165.0000	1174.8500	1176.7200	1185.0000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	129.5000	129.6000	129.8000	130.2000	130.5500
SWEDEN	KRONA	7.1274	7.1153	7.1903	7.1558	7.1681
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9406	0.9431	0.9555	0.9558	0.9592
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.4700	29.4900	29.5900	29.5500	29.6000
THAILAND	BAHT	31.3500	31.3600	31.5600	31.5300	31.6400
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5790	1.5775	1.5691	1.5698	1.5648
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	101.3234	101.3340	102.1258	102.0554	102.2250
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	74.3123	74.4308	74.9819	74.9512	75.1754
3) OITP	JAN97=100	130.6006	130.4568	131.5195	131.3991	131.4759

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