Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: April 2, 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 MARCH 2012 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 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 March 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0526 1.0732 1.0415 1.0113
BRAZIL REAL 1.7953 1.7168 1.7850 1.6574
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9938 0.9967 1.0130 0.9766
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3125 6.2997 6.3172 6.5645
DENMARK KRONE 5.6294 5.6156 5.7599 5.3191
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3208 1.3238 1.2910 1.4020
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7620 7.7544 7.7622 7.7913
INDIA RUPEE 50.3635 49.1812 51.0015 44.9143
JAPAN YEN 82.4659 78.4700 76.9640 81.6470
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0444 3.0220 3.1092 3.0341
MEXICO PESO 12.7523 12.7833 13.3829 11.9963
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8201 0.8349 0.8015 0.7423
NORWAY KRONE 5.7074 5.7097 5.9424 5.5913
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2590 1.2535 1.2777 1.2678
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.6071 7.6388 8.0025 6.8976
SOUTH KOREA WON 1126.1700 1122.6900 1140.3275 1119.2674
SRI LANKA RUPEE 125.6605 117.2810 113.8195 110.3022
SWEDEN KRONA 6.7319 6.6619 6.8463 6.3493
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9131 0.9118 0.9376 0.9185
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.5158 29.5340 29.9900 29.4930
THAILAND BAHT 30.7036 30.6850 31.5060 30.3330
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5824 1.5804 1.5524 1.6159
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2895 4.2896 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 98.7267 98.1209 99.8432 96.9439
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.9721 72.2916 73.3486 70.8105
3) OITP JAN97=100 126.4562 126.0081 128.5204 125.3713

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
  • = 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
  • = 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
Last update: April 2, 2012