Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: September 4, 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 AUGUST 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 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 August 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0475 1.0300 0.9986 1.0502
BRAZIL REAL 2.0279 2.0296 2.0482 1.5966
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9924 1.0142 1.0280 0.9817
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3593 6.3717 6.3633 6.4036
DENMARK KRONE 6.0015 6.0590 5.9266 5.1973
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2406 1.2278 1.2541 1.4333
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7562 7.7561 7.7590 7.7965
INDIA RUPEE 55.4935 55.4248 55.9424 45.3135
JAPAN YEN 78.6909 78.9348 79.3152 76.9657
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1153 3.1653 3.1783 2.9824
MEXICO PESO 13.1793 13.3638 13.9193 12.2366
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8104 0.7986 0.7806 0.8379
NORWAY KRONE 5.9012 6.0690 6.0146 5.4353
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2480 1.2603 1.2784 1.2089
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.2596 8.2535 8.3818 7.0871
SOUTH KOREA WON 1131.7457 1142.2781 1163.3886 1073.8870
SRI LANKA RUPEE 131.9896 132.4848 131.8519 109.7139
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6758 6.9504 7.0746 6.3970
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9681 0.9783 0.9576 0.7800
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.9426 29.9729 29.9052 28.9674
THAILAND BAHT 31.3970 31.6181 31.6152 29.8735
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5722 1.5593 1.5556 1.6356
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.7764 101.6759 102.1622 95.1524
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 74.2240 75.2006 75.0265 69.0690
3) OITP JAN97=100 129.4526 130.1654 131.5415 123.6795

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: September 4, 2012