Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: December 1, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in NOVEMBER 2011 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.

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	November 2011	October 2011	September 2011	November 2010
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0112	1.0168	1.0220	0.9889
BRAZIL	REAL	1.7864	1.7703	1.7492	1.7131
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0248	1.0198	1.0025	1.0129
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3564	6.3710	6.3885	6.6538
DENMARK	KRONE	5.4886	5.4225	5.4170	5.4617
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3558	1.3732	1.3747	1.3654
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7809	7.7774	7.7943	7.7546
INDIA	RUPEE	50.6785	49.2020	47.6905	44.9315
JAPAN	YEN	77.5595	76.6430	76.7957	82.5180
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1521	3.1336	3.0838	3.1132
MEXICO	PESO	13.6955	13.4379	13.0637	12.3376
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7714	0.7912	0.8119	0.7723
NORWAY	KRONE	5.7405	5.6405	5.6257	5.9645
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2886	1.2757	1.2537	1.2987
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.1493	7.9540	7.5769	6.9749
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1133.4775	1150.6850	1121.9095	1129.6230
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	111.2205	110.0875	110.0529	111.5155
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.7377	6.6396	6.6460	6.8201
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9079	0.8958	0.8767	0.9847
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.2215	30.2590	29.7395	30.3180
THAILAND	BAHT	30.9315	30.8395	30.4571	29.8690
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5806	1.5768	1.5771	1.5961
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	99.5436	98.9030	97.9894	99.1244
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	72.2419	71.6060	71.1694	72.8274
3) OITP	JAN97=100	129.4075	128.8255	127.3082	127.5878

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.
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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
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
= 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR