Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: June 3, 2013

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 2013 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 2013	April 2013	March 2013	May 2012
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9919	1.0380	1.0345	0.9980
BRAZIL	REAL	2.0365	2.0011	1.9842	1.9810
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0196	1.0187	1.0244	1.0097
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1416	6.1861	6.2154	6.3242
DENMARK	KRONE	5.7410	5.7235	5.7552	5.8061
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2983	1.3025	1.2953	1.2806
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7614	7.7631	7.7592	7.7640
INDIA	RUPEE	54.9845	54.3236	54.4229	54.3314
JAPAN	YEN	100.9186	97.7582	94.7700	79.6668
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0188	3.0480	3.1074	3.0978
MEXICO	PESO	12.2993	12.2061	12.5000	13.6199
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8249	0.8479	0.8284	0.7748
NORWAY	KRONE	5.8202	5.7935	5.7806	5.9151
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2486	1.2380	1.2466	1.2620
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	9.3494	9.1007	9.1927	8.1506
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1111.4945	1120.8977	1102.8710	1156.6914
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	126.2432	125.9673	126.7005	129.0045
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.5992	6.4867	6.4455	7.0280
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9557	0.9366	0.9466	0.9383
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.7755	29.8268	29.7448	29.4668
THAILAND	BAHT	29.7618	29.0573	29.4948	31.2850
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5297	1.5311	1.5080	1.5924
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	100.8054	100.3465	100.6782	100.7359
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	76.9043	76.1837	76.1993	73.9198
3) OITP	JAN97=100	125.9512	125.8563	126.5803	129.7751

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