Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: June 1, 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 MAY 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 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 May 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9980 1.0350 1.0526 1.0675
BRAZIL REAL 1.9810 1.8522 1.7953 1.6136
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0097 0.9928 0.9938 0.9680
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3242 6.3043 6.3125 6.4957
DENMARK KRONE 5.8061 5.6529 5.6294 5.2030
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2806 1.3160 1.3208 1.4335
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7640 7.7621 7.7620 7.7742
INDIA RUPEE 54.3314 51.6900 50.3635 44.9024
JAPAN YEN 79.6668 81.2524 82.4659 81.1257
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0978 3.0586 3.0444 3.0127
MEXICO PESO 13.6199 13.0559 12.7523 11.6542
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7748 0.8180 0.8201 0.7959
NORWAY KRONE 5.9151 5.7521 5.7074 5.4766
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2620 1.2510 1.2590 1.2387
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.1506 7.8329 7.6071 6.8556
SOUTH KOREA WON 1156.6914 1135.0238 1126.1700 1084.3619
SRI LANKA RUPEE 129.0045 128.4248 125.6605 109.7629
SWEDEN KRONA 7.0280 6.7359 6.7319 6.2526
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9383 0.9133 0.9131 0.8740
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.4668 29.4433 29.5158 28.7262
THAILAND BAHT 31.2850 30.8614 30.7036 30.2210
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5924 1.6000 1.5824 1.6332
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2895 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.7241 99.0266 98.7267 95.3074
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.9254 72.8330 72.9721 69.6647
3) OITP JAN97=100 129.7534 127.3497 126.4562 123.1848

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: June 1, 2012