G.5(405) February 1, 2010 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) MONETARY 2010 2009 2009 2009 COUNTRY UNIT January December November January *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 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 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 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 = .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 = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS = 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR