Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: June 1, 2007
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 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 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 May 2006
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8254 0.8273 0.7932 0.7639
BRAZIL REAL 1.9836 2.0302 2.0883 2.1697
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0951 1.1350 1.1682 1.1100
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.6773 7.7247 7.7369 8.0131
DENMARK KRONE 5.5120 5.5155 5.6232 5.8398
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3518 1.3513 1.3246 1.2767
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8187 7.8154 7.8132 7.7538
INDIA RUPEE 40.57 42.02 43.79 45.20
JAPAN YEN 120.77 118.93 117.26 111.73
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4002 3.4364 3.4894 3.6091
MEXICO PESO 10.822 10.980 11.114 11.091
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7334 0.7345 0.6995 0.6311
NORWAY KRONE 6.0220 6.0098 6.1401 6.1040
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5231 1.5150 1.5242 1.5755
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.0148 7.1026 7.3525 6.3128
SOUTH KOREA WON 927.56 930.69 942.88 940.82
SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.800 109.360 109.294 102.838
SWEDEN KRONA 6.8094 6.8371 7.0171 7.3050
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2211 1.2124 1.2178 1.2190
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.278 33.145 33.010 31.737
THAILAND BAHT 32.818 32.421 32.642 37.947
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.9842 1.9879 1.9474 1.8687
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.55
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 May 2006
1)BROAD JAN97=100 104.40 105.30 106.67 107.34
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 79.20 79.87 81.23 80.63
3)OITP JAN97=100 130.48 131.64 132.80 135.60
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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