Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: December 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 NOVEMBER 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 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 November 2011
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0405 1.0298 1.0406 1.0112
BRAZIL REAL 2.0662 2.0297 2.0269 1.7864
CANADA DOLLAR 0.9970 0.9872 0.9783 1.0248
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.2338 6.2627 6.3200 6.3564
DENMARK KRONE 5.8100 5.7486 5.7855 5.4886
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2837 1.2974 1.2885 1.3558
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7505 7.7515 7.7540 7.7809
INDIA RUPEE 54.7845 53.0995 54.3500 50.6785
JAPAN YEN 81.0305 79.0132 78.1353 77.5595
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0555 3.0524 3.0758 3.1521
MEXICO PESO 13.0639 12.8976 12.9235 13.6955
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8195 0.8197 0.8199 0.7714
NORWAY KRONE 5.7180 5.7078 5.7467 5.7405
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2232 1.2237 1.2303 1.2886
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.7994 8.6424 8.2574 8.1493
SOUTH KOREA WON 1086.9525 1105.3823 1122.9911 1133.4775
SRI LANKA RUPEE 130.2340 129.0859 131.5105 111.2205
SWEDEN KRONA 6.7059 6.6400 6.5960 6.7377
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9388 0.9323 0.9386 0.9079
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.1145 29.2418 29.4763 30.2215
THAILAND BAHT 30.6945 30.6764 30.9442 30.9315
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5968 1.6080 1.6126 1.5806
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 99.5862 98.9623 99.2415 99.5193
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.5981 72.7435 72.5776 72.2098
3) OITP JAN97=100 127.5777 127.3178 128.1910 129.3488

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: December 3, 2012