Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: June 1, 2009
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REVISED: EXCHANGE RATE AVERAGES REVISED TO EXCLUDE MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 25, 2009, A
   U.S. FEDERAL HOLIDAY.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 2009 TOGETHER                                                                                                                                                                     
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MAY 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 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 May 2008
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7648 0.7158 0.6666 0.9492
BRAZIL REAL 2.0689 2.2027 2.3161 1.6585
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1528 1.2242 1.2645 0.9993
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8235 6.8306 6.8360 6.9725
DENMARK KRONE 5.4585 5.6437 5.7137 4.7963
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3646 1.3199 1.3050 1.5554
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7510 7.7501 7.7530 7.7988
INDIA RUPEE 48.5100 49.9655 51.1291 42.0019
JAPAN YEN 96.6445 98.9200 97.8550 104.3595
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.5218 3.6053 3.6726 3.2127
MEXICO PESO 13.1895 13.4035 14.6466 10.4381
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6014 0.5729 0.5336 0.7777
NORWAY KRONE 6.4504 6.6557 6.7855 5.0571
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4611 1.5028 1.5296 1.3659
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.3741 8.9644 9.9536 7.6076
SOUTH KOREA WON 1254.3450 1332.1250 1449.6159 1034.1333
SRI LANKA RUPEE 116.6720 117.3068 114.2836 107.7705
SWEDEN KRONA 7.7602 8.2297 8.5727 5.9887
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1076 1.1481 1.1555 1.0448
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.8695 33.6009 34.3041 30.5890
THAILAND BAHT 34.6240 35.4036 35.7368 32.0262
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5418 1.4712 1.4170 1.9650
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 May 2008
1)BROAD JAN97=100 106.4881 109.6697 112.4505 95.8313
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 78.8899 82.2812 83.8370 70.7486
3)OITP JAN97=100 136.1971 138.7375 143.2446 123.3326
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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