Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: December 27, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Dec. 19	Dec. 20	Dec. 21	Dec. 22	Dec. 23
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9915	1.0069	1.0070	1.0140	1.0148
BRAZIL	REAL	1.8662	1.8459	1.8574	1.8523	1.8595
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0364	1.0284	1.0286	1.0213	1.0208
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3376	6.3459	6.3386	6.3392	6.3364
DENMARK	KRONE	5.7094	5.6833	5.7005	5.6981	5.6996
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3017	1.3076	1.3040	1.3045	1.3040
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7851	7.7823	7.7813	7.7817	7.7760
INDIA	RUPEE	52.6900	52.7600	52.3900	52.5600	52.7800
JAPAN	YEN	77.9600	77.7600	78.0000	78.1300	78.1300
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1810	3.1768	3.1610	3.1650	3.1550
MEXICO	PESO	13.8610	13.7866	13.8523	13.8290	13.8189
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7569	0.7698	0.7674	0.7750	0.7740
NORWAY	KRONE	5.9334	5.8960	5.9397	5.9492	5.9755
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3069	1.2988	1.2975	1.2929	1.2935
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.3866	8.2211	8.2679	8.1750	8.1350
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1175.5000	1157.0000	1150.8000	1154.0000	1149.0000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	113.8100	113.7600	113.7600	113.8700	113.7600
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.9065	6.8582	6.9037	6.8708	6.8897
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9364	0.9309	0.9378	0.9368	0.9379
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.3800	30.3300	30.2800	30.2500	30.2700
THAILAND	BAHT	31.2900	31.2300	31.2700	31.2400	31.2700
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5531	1.5674	1.5680	1.5667	1.5615
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	101.1290	100.7059	100.7856	100.6518	100.6380
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	73.8969	73.4606	73.6055	73.4421	73.4664
3) OITP	JAN97=100	130.7404	130.3760	130.3545	130.2758	130.2085

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