G.5(405) January 19, 2010 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 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) MONETARY 2009 2009 2009 2008 COUNTRY UNIT December November October December *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9021 0.9197 0.9067 0.6719 BRAZIL REAL 1.7508 1.7268 1.7378 2.3954 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0537 1.0593 1.0547 1.2337 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8275 6.8271 6.8267 6.8539 DENMARK KRONE 5.1060 4.9914 5.0220 5.5239 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4579 1.4908 1.4821 1.3511 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7526 7.7497 7.7497 7.7504 INDIA RUPEE 46.5273 46.5305 46.6524 48.5132 JAPAN YEN 89.9509 89.2674 90.3671 91.2750 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4099 3.3886 3.4016 3.5483 MEXICO PESO 12.8622 13.1115 13.2275 13.4167 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7169 0.7301 0.7386 0.5597 NORWAY KRONE 5.7708 5.6430 5.6428 7.0159 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3962 1.3888 1.3974 1.4769 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4848 7.5096 7.4871 9.9227 SOUTH KOREA WON 1163.3109 1162.8368 1173.7405 1361.5727 SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.2836 114.4853 114.7838 111.4464 SWEDEN KRONA 7.1384 6.9267 6.9550 8.0124 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0301 1.0131 1.0213 1.1404 TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.2459 32.3189 32.2910 33.1555 THAILAND BAHT 33.2045 33.2621 33.3900 35.0086 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6226 1.6599 1.6212 1.4854 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1430 2.1446 2.1446 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 101.7541 101.2873 101.7775 108.4748 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.9795 73.1487 73.5597 80.6853 3)OITP JAN97=100 132.5545 132.8137 133.3550 138.5069 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 currencies 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 May 2009 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. For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form, please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244. 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