Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: March 1, 2007
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2007 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)                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 February 2006
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7830 0.7826 0.7858 0.7418
BRAZIL REAL 2.0939 2.1376 2.1476 2.1587
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1710 1.1763 1.1532 1.1489
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.7502 7.7876 7.8219 8.0512
DENMARK KRONE 5.6981 5.7364 5.6452 6.2514
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3080 1.2993 1.3205 1.1940
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8114 7.8000 7.7733 7.7593
INDIA RUPEE 44.02 44.21 44.48 44.23
JAPAN YEN 120.50 120.45 117.32 117.86
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4949 3.5065 3.5477 3.7276
MEXICO PESO 10.995 10.956 10.855 10.484
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6934 0.6947 0.6933 0.6735
NORWAY KRONE 6.1860 6.3656 6.1826 6.7526
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5333 1.5373 1.5401 1.6286
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.1755 7.1898 7.0345 6.1153
SOUTH KOREA WON 936.90 936.76 924.98 969.84
SRI LANKA RUPEE 108.684 108.522 107.791 102.194
SWEDEN KRONA 7.0200 6.9901 6.8398 7.8226
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2393 1.2431 1.2099 1.3052
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.968 32.770 32.512 32.319
THAILAND BAHT 33.888 35.189 35.694 39.343
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.9589 1.9587 1.9629 1.7480
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.62
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 February 2006
1)BROAD JAN97=100 107.23 107.59 106.53 110.26
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 82.07 82.37 80.89 85.05
3)OITP JAN97=100 132.77 133.18 133.03 135.38
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 "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 currencie                                                                                                                                          
   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 January 2007 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.                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   *  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.                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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   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                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  239.640  SLOVENIAN TOLAR                                                                                                                                                                                                   
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