Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: December 1, 2009
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN NOVEMBER 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 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 November 2008
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9197 0.9067 0.8622 0.6591
BRAZIL REAL 1.7268 1.7378 1.8187 2.2704
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0593 1.0547 1.0816 1.2171
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8271 6.8267 6.8277 6.8281
DENMARK KRONE 4.9914 5.0220 5.1065 5.8448
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4908 1.4821 1.4575 1.2744
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7497 7.7497 7.7503 7.7507
INDIA RUPEE 46.5305 46.6524 48.2924 48.8517
JAPAN YEN 89.2674 90.3671 91.2748 96.9656
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3886 3.4016 3.4899 3.5843
MEXICO PESO 13.1115 13.2275 13.4060 13.1186
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7301 0.7386 0.7046 0.5664
NORWAY KRONE 5.6430 5.6428 5.9006 6.9290
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3888 1.3974 1.4220 1.5076
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.5096 7.4871 7.5025 10.1112
SOUTH KOREA WON 1162.8368 1173.7405 1211.8643 1398.7044
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.4853 114.7838 114.7667 109.9594
SWEDEN KRONA 6.9267 6.9550 6.9941 7.9612
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0131 1.0213 1.0391 1.1910
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.3189 32.2910 32.5333 33.1028
THAILAND BAHT 33.2621 33.3900 33.7876 35.0350
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6599 1.6212 1.6323 1.5327
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1430 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 November 2008
1)BROAD JAN97=100 101.2874 101.7775 103.1271 109.6314
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.1487 73.5597 74.6307 82.7427
3)OITP JAN97=100 132.8138 133.3550 134.9537 137.9467
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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