Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: April 16, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Apr. 9	Apr. 10	Apr. 11	Apr. 12	Apr. 13
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0319	1.0262	1.0295	1.0441	1.0372
BRAZIL	REAL	1.8218	1.8340	1.8311	1.8261	1.8363
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9971	1.0027	1.0040	0.9951	0.9978
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3100	6.3105	6.3076	6.3069	6.3022
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6844	5.6926	5.6749	5.6475	5.6863
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3087	1.3068	1.3104	1.3171	1.3082
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7655	7.7649	7.7649	7.7638	7.7588
INDIA	RUPEE	51.1000	51.4700	51.5000	51.2200	51.4500
JAPAN	YEN	81.3600	80.9400	80.8800	80.8700	80.9900
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0700	3.0645	3.0645	3.0690	3.0551
MEXICO	PESO	12.9840	13.1782	13.1580	13.0630	13.1460
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8228	0.8132	0.8178	0.8270	0.8243
NORWAY	KRONE	5.7936	5.8109	5.8014	5.7660	5.7931
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2625	1.2627	1.2586	1.2522	1.2474
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.8714	8.0173	8.0020	7.8877	7.9400
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1138.1000	1139.5000	1143.3500	1137.4000	1134.2000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	125.2500	127.5000	128.3000	128.2500	128.2500
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.7716	6.8118	6.7954	6.7490	6.7880
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9180	0.9195	0.9165	0.9125	0.9189
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.5500	29.5400	29.5000	29.4500	29.4800
THAILAND	BAHT	30.9300	30.9800	30.8700	30.7400	30.7300
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5879	1.5836	1.5892	1.5939	1.5851
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	99.1831	99.4844	99.3854	98.9811	99.2469
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	73.1620	73.2964	73.2017	72.8033	73.1346
3) OITP	JAN97=100	127.2478	127.7583	127.6619	127.2850	127.4346

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