G.5(405) February 27, 2004 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2004 TOGETHER WITH COMPARABLE FIGURES FOR OTHER MONTHS. AVERAGES ARE BASED ON DAILY NOON BUYING RATES FOR CABLE TRANSFERS IN NEW YORK CITY CERTIFIED FOR CUSTOMS PURPOSES BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK. (Currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY 2004 2004 2003 2003 COUNTRY UNIT February January December February *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7770 0.7717 0.7391 0.5956 BRAZIL REAL 2.9342 2.8533 2.9255 3.5955 CANADA DOLLAR 1.3299 1.2958 1.3128 1.5121 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2771 8.2770 8.2770 8.2780 DENMARK KRONE 5.8956 5.8952 6.0537 6.8920 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2640 1.2638 1.2298 1.0785 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7748 7.7663 7.7645 7.7995 INDIA RUPEE 45.27 45.46 45.57 47.75 JAPAN YEN 106.71 106.27 107.74 119.34 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 MEXICO PESO 11.032 10.920 11.251 10.945 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6916 0.6738 0.6471 0.5539 NORWAY KRONE 6.9508 6.8117 6.7128 7.0004 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.6869 1.6965 1.7107 1.7451 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.7542 6.9398 6.5374 8.2858 SOUTH KOREA WON 1167.53 1183.35 1192.34 1190.37 SRI LANKA RUPEE 98.507 98.009 96.413 96.879 SWEDEN KRONA 7.2630 7.2334 7.3395 8.4837 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2448 1.2391 1.2643 1.3602 TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.214 33.669 34.056 34.734 THAILAND BAHT 39.116 39.124 39.745 42.897 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.8673 1.8255 1.7516 1.6079 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 1818.95 1600.00 1599.86 1651.08 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 113.10 112.54 114.51 123.53 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 84.97 84.43 86.27 97.73 3)OITP JAN97=100 142.97 142.54 144.27 146.53 This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5. For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "New Summary Measures of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 84 (October 1998), pp. 811-18 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/). 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 to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect with the December 31, 2003, 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 Reuters Limited. * 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. For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form, please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244. The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-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 = 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS = 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS = 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS = .787564 IRISH POUNDS = 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE = 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS = 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS = 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS = 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS