G.5(405) December 1, 2010 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN NOVEMBER 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 November October September November *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9903 0.9811 0.9398 0.9197 BRAZIL REAL 1.7120 1.6834 1.7180 1.7268 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0131 1.0187 1.0330 1.0593 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.6537 6.6675 6.7396 6.8271 DENMARK KRONE 5.4605 5.3678 5.6867 4.9914 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3658 1.3891 1.3103 1.4908 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7547 7.7580 7.7643 7.7497 INDIA RUPEE 44.9600 44.3631 45.8729 46.5305 JAPAN YEN 82.4857 81.7885 84.3571 89.2674 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1131 3.0991 3.1032 3.3886 MEXICO PESO 12.3306 12.4432 12.7977 13.1115 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7736 0.7513 0.7288 0.7301 NORWAY KRONE 5.9626 5.8349 6.0431 5.6430 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2984 1.3030 1.3333 1.3888 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.9663 6.9170 7.1100 7.5096 SOUTH KOREA WON 1129.0048 1122.0780 1159.9310 1162.8368 SRI LANKA RUPEE 111.5243 111.6700 112.3029 114.4853 SWEDEN KRONA 6.8207 6.6803 7.0397 6.9267 SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9845 0.9693 1.0002 1.0131 TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.3140 30.8342 31.6410 32.3189 THAILAND BAHT 29.8757 29.9290 30.7771 33.2621 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5972 1.5852 1.5591 1.6599 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2916 4.2912 4.2893 2.1430 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 99.2207 98.9453 101.5956 100.4726 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.8227 72.3727 74.9910 72.4277 3)OITP JAN97=100 127.8634 127.9194 130.2173 131.6980 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