Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: January 3, 2012

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 DECEMBER 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	December 2011	November 2011	October 2011	December 2010
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0122	1.0112	1.0168	0.9929
BRAZIL	REAL	1.8391	1.7864	1.7703	1.6955
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0235	1.0248	1.0198	1.0081
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3482	6.3564	6.3710	6.6497
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6521	5.4886	5.4225	5.6366
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3155	1.3558	1.3732	1.3221
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7767	7.7809	7.7774	7.7736
INDIA	RUPEE	52.3824	50.6785	49.2020	45.1000
JAPAN	YEN	77.7967	77.5595	76.6430	83.3376
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1590	3.1521	3.1336	3.1283
MEXICO	PESO	13.7746	13.6955	13.4379	12.3902
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7699	0.7714	0.7912	0.7511
NORWAY	KRONE	5.8912	5.7405	5.6405	5.9833
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2954	1.2886	1.2757	1.3063
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.1933	8.1493	7.9540	6.8237
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1148.1262	1133.4775	1150.6850	1145.4833
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	113.8067	111.2205	110.0875	111.0081
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.8553	6.7377	6.6396	6.8524
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9334	0.9079	0.8958	0.9689
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.2505	30.2215	30.2590	29.9014
THAILAND	BAHT	31.1743	30.9315	30.8395	30.0857
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5587	1.5806	1.5768	1.5595
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	100.4641	99.5436	98.9030	99.7838
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	73.2349	72.2419	71.6060	73.7870
3) OITP	JAN97=100	130.1344	129.4075	128.8255	127.7637

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