Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: September 4, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY CURRENCY Aug. 27 Aug. 28 Aug. 29 Aug. 30 Aug. 31
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0387 1.0383 1.0366 1.0301 1.0334
BRAZIL REAL 2.0301 2.0492 2.0480 2.0463 2.0301
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9892 0.9864 0.9873 0.9925 0.9862
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3558 6.3525 6.3513 6.3494 6.3484
DENMARK KRONE 5.9508 5.9289 5.9429 5.9610 5.9237
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2514 1.2564 1.2538 1.2497 1.2578
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7560 7.7563 7.7557 7.7562 7.7560
INDIA RUPEE 55.6800 55.6500 55.6900 55.6300 55.5200
JAPAN YEN 78.6700 78.5000 78.7200 78.5500 78.3000
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1080 3.1140 3.1200 3.1230 3.1230
MEXICO PESO 13.1740 13.1825 13.2855 13.3938 13.2401
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8098 0.8057 0.8024 0.7987 0.8037
NORWAY KRONE 5.8270 5.8235 5.8268 5.8200 5.7990
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2510 1.2523 1.2526 1.2537 1.2477
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.3991 8.3761 8.4035 8.4795 8.3844
SOUTH KOREA WON 1134.4900 1134.4500 1134.9700 1134.1800 1133.2000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 132.4000 132.2500 132.2000 132.3000 132.2000
SWEDEN KRONA 6.5873 6.6032 6.6580 6.6916 6.6176
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9597 0.9558 0.9578 0.9608 0.9546
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.9400 29.9100 29.9200 29.9300 29.8700
THAILAND BAHT 31.2500 31.2900 31.3200 31.3800 31.2400
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5800 1.5828 1.5839 1.5794 1.5864
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.5649 100.4605 100.6503 100.8862 100.4287
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.8611 73.6466 73.7749 73.9962 73.5761
3) OITP JAN97=100 129.4738 129.5357 129.7958 130.0312 129.5621
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
Last update: September 4, 2012