Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: March 2, 2009
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2009 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 2009 January 2009 December 2008 February 2008
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6504 0.6754 0.6719 0.9133
BRAZIL REAL 2.3230 2.3079 2.3954 1.7290
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2452 1.2248 1.2337 0.9986
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8363 6.8360 6.8539 7.1644
DENMARK KRONE 5.8226 5.6284 5.5239 5.0507
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2797 1.3244 1.3511 1.4759
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7534 7.7563 7.7504 7.7963
INDIA RUPEE 49.2484 48.6995 48.5132 39.6735
JAPAN YEN 92.9158 90.1205 91.2750 107.0300
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.6345 3.5705 3.5483 3.2216
MEXICO PESO 14.6066 13.8839 13.4167 10.7679
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5160 0.5510 0.5597 0.7969
NORWAY KRONE 6.8710 6.9566 7.0159 5.3851
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5178 1.4913 1.4769 1.4106
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.9773 9.9076 9.9227 7.6578
SOUTH KOREA WON 1439.5842 1354.3975 1361.5727 944.0050
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.1026 113.7685 111.4464 107.8270
SWEDEN KRONA 8.5455 8.1044 8.0124 6.3450
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1639 1.1267 1.1404 1.0890
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.2389 33.3695 33.1555 31.6125
THAILAND BAHT 35.3089 34.8710 35.0086 31.1740
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4422 1.4462 1.4854 1.9646
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 February 2008
1)BROAD JAN97=100 111.8151 109.0996 108.4748 97.6723
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 83.1065 81.0122 80.6853 72.5747
3)OITP JAN97=100 142.8744 139.5384 138.5069 124.8332
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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