Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: January 1, 2014

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 DECEMBER 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	December 2013	November 2013	October 2013	December 2012
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.8980	0.9324	0.9519	1.0465
BRAZIL	REAL	2.3471	2.2959	2.1882	2.0775
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0639	1.0486	1.0363	0.9898
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.0738	6.0929	6.1032	6.2328
DENMARK	KRONE	5.4418	5.5281	5.4662	5.6864
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3708	1.3491	1.3646	1.3119
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7535	7.7523	7.7536	7.7501
INDIA	RUPEE	61.8110	62.5179	61.6059	54.6470
JAPAN	YEN	103.4600	100.0737	97.7700	83.7905
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2491	3.1961	3.1734	3.0537
MEXICO	PESO	13.0099	13.0597	12.9916	12.8651
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8224	0.8259	0.8345	0.8312
NORWAY	KRONE	6.1342	6.0856	5.9491	5.6103
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2589	1.2476	1.2431	1.2204
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.3683	10.2009	9.8979	8.6116
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1055.6348	1061.5637	1065.8573	1075.2225
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.7643	131.0895	130.9955	128.0360
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.5328	6.5863	6.4080	6.5936
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.8933	0.9129	0.9025	0.9213
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.7233	29.5179	29.3768	29.0445
THAILAND	BAHT	32.3505	31.6242	31.1850	30.6155
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6383	1.6100	1.6098	1.6145
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	102.0279	101.8122	100.8980	99.0253
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	76.4455	76.2222	75.2182	73.1806
3) OITP	JAN97=100	129.3584	129.1657	128.4257	126.8940

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