Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: October 17, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Oct. 10	Oct. 11	Oct. 12	Oct. 13	Oct. 14
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	ND	0.9978	1.0166	1.0147	1.0296
BRAZIL	REAL	ND	1.7529	1.7745	1.7450	1.7373
CANADA	DOLLAR	ND	1.0287	1.0163	1.0238	1.0148
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	ND	6.3745	6.3580	6.3820	6.3780
DENMARK	KRONE	ND	5.4500	5.3936	5.4219	5.3710
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	ND	1.3657	1.3805	1.3730	1.3861
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	ND	7.7805	7.7788	7.7773	7.7774
INDIA	RUPEE	ND	49.2400	48.9500	49.2200	48.8900
JAPAN	YEN	ND	76.6600	77.3000	76.8800	77.3600
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	ND	3.1400	3.1240	3.1390	3.1250
MEXICO	PESO	ND	13.3210	13.2303	13.3621	13.2906
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	ND	0.7826	0.7970	0.7922	0.8021
NORWAY	KRONE	ND	5.6865	5.6242	5.6459	5.5708
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	ND	1.2817	1.2751	1.2803	1.2662
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	ND	7.9082	7.7982	7.9028	7.8250
SOUTH KOREA	WON	ND	1171.1500	1164.5000	1157.7500	1156.0000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	ND	110.1000	110.1800	110.1500	110.1800
SWEDEN	KRONA	ND	6.6716	6.6111	6.6767	6.6053
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	ND	0.9065	0.8944	0.9000	0.8934
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	ND	30.3200	30.3500	30.2600	30.2800
THAILAND	BAHT	ND	30.9200	30.8000	30.8700	30.7700
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	ND	1.5594	1.5757	1.5729	1.5808
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	ND	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	ND	99.2032	98.6321	98.9651	98.5266
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	ND	72.0689	71.4858	71.7602	71.3096
3) OITP	JAN97=100	ND	128.8577	128.3601	128.7454	128.3682

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
= 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