Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: March 01, 2005
Release dates | Dollar indexes, summary measures | Currency weights
Current release  Other formats: Screen reader | ASCII

 

 

G.5(405) February 28, 2005
 

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 

THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2005 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)
COUNTRYMONETARY
UNIT
2005
February
2005
January
2004
December
2004
February
 *AUSTRALIA        DOLLAR          0.7812       0.7668       0.7675       0.7770 
  BRAZIL           REAL            2.5971       2.6895       2.7150       2.9342 
  CANADA           DOLLAR          1.2401       1.2248       1.2189       1.3299 
  CHINA, P.R.      YUAN            8.2765       8.2765       8.2765       8.2771 
  DENMARK          KRONE           5.7195       5.6699       5.5449       5.8956 
 *EMU MEMBERS      EURO            1.3013       1.3123       1.3406       1.2640 
  HONG KONG        DOLLAR          7.7994       7.7948       7.7760       7.7748 
  INDIA            RUPEE          43.58        43.62        43.85        45.27   
  JAPAN            YEN           104.94       103.34       103.81       106.71   
  MALAYSIA         RINGGIT         3.8000       3.8000       3.8000       3.8000 
  MEXICO           PESO           11.137       11.263       11.201       11.032  
 *NEW ZEALAND      DOLLAR          0.7155       0.7065       0.7149       0.6916 
  NORWAY           KRONE           6.3960       6.2672       6.1355       6.9508 
  SINGAPORE        DOLLAR          1.6381       1.6377       1.6402       1.6869 
  SOUTH AFRICA     RAND            6.0001       5.9587       5.7235       6.7542 
  SOUTH KOREA      WON          1023.11      1037.98      1050.37      1167.53   
  SRI LANKA        RUPEE          99.273       98.929      104.748       98.507  
  SWEDEN           KRONA           6.9800       6.8991       6.6969       7.2630 
  SWITZERLAND      FRANC           1.1918       1.1792       1.1465       1.2448 
  TAIWAN           DOLLAR         31.498       31.847       32.170       33.214  
  THAILAND         BAHT           38.446       38.739       39.183       39.116  
 *UNITED KINGDOM   POUND           1.8871       1.8797       1.9286       1.8673 
  VENEZUELA        BOLIVAR      1915.20      1915.20      1915.20      1818.95   
                       
  MEMO:                
  UNITED STATES    DOLLAR        
1)BROAD            JAN97=100     
2)MAJOR CURRENCY   MAR73=100      81.81        81.06        80.11        84.92   
3)OITP             JAN97=100     139.44       140.36       140.57       142.37   
                       
 

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 February 28, 2005, 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
 

 


Release dates | Dollar indexes, summary measures | Currency weights
Current release  Other formats: Screen reader | ASCII

Statistical releases