Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: August 1, 2008
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JULY 2008 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 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 July 2007
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9620 0.9511 0.9492 0.8677
BRAZIL REAL 1.5910 1.6179 1.6585 1.8812
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0131 1.0166 0.9993 1.0502
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8365 6.8993 6.9725 7.5757
DENMARK KRONE 4.7345 4.7926 4.7963 5.4199
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.5755 1.5562 1.5554 1.3726
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8000 7.8073 7.7988 7.8197
INDIA RUPEE 42.7201 42.7633 42.0019 40.2738
JAPAN YEN 106.8435 106.9152 104.3595 121.4148
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.2484 3.2568 3.2127 3.4397
MEXICO PESO 10.2157 10.3269 10.4381 10.8146
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7547 0.7616 0.7777 0.7862
NORWAY KRONE 5.1050 5.1351 5.0571 5.7807
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3592 1.3679 1.3659 1.5156
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.6161 7.9367 7.6076 6.9730
SOUTH KOREA WON 1016.5870 1031.4857 1034.1333 918.1190
SRI LANKA RUPEE 107.6093 107.7633 107.7705 111.6724
SWEDEN KRONA 6.0011 6.0249 5.9887 6.6933
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0282 1.0371 1.0448 1.2069
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.4143 30.3705 30.5890 32.8095
THAILAND BAHT 33.4683 33.1752 32.0262 30.3867
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.9886 1.9664 1.9650 2.0355
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 July 2007
1)BROAD JAN97=100 95.4220 96.0884 95.8313 102.7679
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 70.9195 71.4202 70.7486 77.5055
3)OITP JAN97=100 121.9338 122.7758 123.3326 129.2623
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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