G.5(405) September 1, 2010 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN AUGUST 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 2010 2010 2009 COUNTRY UNIT August July June August *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9004 0.8786 0.8539 0.8353 BRAZIL REAL 1.7589 1.7689 1.8042 1.8453 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0404 1.0422 1.0376 1.0872 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.7873 6.7762 6.8184 6.8323 DENMARK KRONE 5.7745 5.8179 6.0873 5.2174 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2903 1.2811 1.2223 1.4266 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7702 7.7753 7.7880 7.7506 INDIA RUPEE 46.4605 46.7617 46.4983 48.2426 JAPAN YEN 85.3727 87.5005 90.8059 94.8971 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1516 3.2035 3.2633 3.5156 MEXICO PESO 12.7660 12.8038 12.7102 13.0063 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7150 0.7145 0.6926 0.6766 NORWAY KRONE 6.1481 6.2633 6.4728 6.0705 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3551 1.3756 1.3976 1.4420 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.2877 7.5212 7.6356 7.9406 SOUTH KOREA WON 1179.5159 1203.8095 1214.1114 1238.9952 SRI LANKA RUPEE 112.3968 112.9571 113.5605 114.7148 SWEDEN KRONA 7.3015 7.4066 7.8261 7.1562 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0388 1.0530 1.1255 1.0683 TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.8695 32.0935 32.1988 32.8564 THAILAND BAHT 31.7173 32.2895 32.4459 34.0076 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5661 1.5304 1.4768 1.6532 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2897 4.2896 4.2893 2.1446 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.5983 103.4384 105.1763 103.3108 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.9263 76.7385 79.0001 75.3466 3)OITP JAN97=100 131.1825 131.9449 132.5954 133.9317 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