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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 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 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 December 2009
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9929 0.9889 0.9817 0.9021
BRAZIL REAL 1.6955 1.7131 1.6846 1.7508
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0081 1.0129 1.0180 1.0537
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.6497 6.6538 6.6678 6.8275
DENMARK KRONE 5.6366 5.4617 5.3643 5.1060
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3221 1.3654 1.3900 1.4579
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7736 7.7546 7.7579 7.7526
INDIA RUPEE 45.1000 44.9315 44.3656 46.5273
JAPAN YEN 83.3376 82.5180 81.7335 89.9509
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1283 3.1132 3.0990 3.4099
MEXICO PESO 12.3902 12.3376 12.4371 12.8622
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7511 0.7723 0.7520 0.7169
NORWAY KRONE 5.9833 5.9645 5.8329 5.7708
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3063 1.2987 1.3026 1.3962
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.8237 6.9749 6.9111 7.4848
SOUTH KOREA WON 1145.4833 1129.6230 1121.9900 1163.3109
SRI LANKA RUPEE 111.0081 111.5155 111.6730 114.2836
SWEDEN KRONA 6.8524 6.8201 6.6767 7.1384
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9689 0.9847 0.9689 1.0301
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.9014 30.3180 30.8168 32.2459
THAILAND BAHT 30.0857 29.8690 29.9235 33.2045
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5595 1.5961 1.5864 1.6226
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2901 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 December 2009
1)BROAD JAN97=100 99.9363 99.2337 98.9089 100.9524
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.8097 72.8356 72.3257 73.2658
3)OITP JAN97=100 128.0189 127.8747 127.9065 131.4868
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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