Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: February 1, 2010
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JANUARY 2010 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 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 January 2009
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9127 0.9021 0.9197 0.6754
BRAZIL REAL 1.7817 1.7508 1.7268 2.3079
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0438 1.0537 1.0593 1.2248
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8269 6.8275 6.8271 6.8360
DENMARK KRONE 5.2177 5.1060 4.9914 5.6284
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4266 1.4579 1.4908 1.3244
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7624 7.7526 7.7497 7.7563
INDIA RUPEE 45.8944 46.5273 46.5305 48.6995
JAPAN YEN 91.1011 89.9509 89.2674 90.1205
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3750 3.4099 3.3886 3.5705
MEXICO PESO 12.8096 12.8622 13.1115 13.8839
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7263 0.7169 0.7301 0.5510
NORWAY KRONE 5.7402 5.7708 5.6430 6.9566
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3965 1.3962 1.3888 1.4913
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4631 7.4848 7.5096 9.9076
SOUTH KOREA WON 1138.1947 1163.3109 1162.8368 1354.3975
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.3589 114.2836 114.4853 113.7685
SWEDEN KRONA 7.1534 7.1384 6.9267 8.1044
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0345 1.0301 1.0131 1.1267
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.8658 32.2459 32.3189 33.3695
THAILAND BAHT 33.0274 33.2045 33.2621 34.8710
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6158 1.6226 1.6599 1.4462
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 3.6137 2.1446 2.1430 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 January 2009
1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.1350 101.7541 101.2873 109.0996
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 74.5177 73.9795 73.1487 81.0122
3)OITP JAN97=100 132.5910 132.5545 132.8137 139.5384
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 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.                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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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                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  .585274  CYPRUS POUND                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  5.94573  FINNISH MARKKAS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                  =  6.55957  FRENCH FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                  =  1.95583  GERMAN MARKS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  340.750  GREEK DRACHMAS                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  .787564  IRISH POUNDS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  1936.27  ITALIAN LIRE                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  40.3399  LUXEMBOURG FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                 
                  =  .429300  MALTESE LIRA                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  2.20371  NETHERLANDS GUILDERS                                                                                                                                                                                              
                  =  200.482  PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS                                                                                                                                                                                                
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