Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: August 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 JULY 2014 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	July 2014	June 2014	May 2014	July 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9389	0.9365	0.9305	0.9155
BRAZIL	REAL	2.2242	2.2360	2.2195	2.2518
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0739	1.0830	1.0894	1.0402
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1984	6.2306	6.2380	6.1343
DENMARK	KRONE	5.5097	5.4861	5.4331	5.6983
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3533	1.3595	1.3739	1.3088
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7502	7.7516	7.7523	7.7567
INDIA	RUPEE	60.0956	59.7367	59.2843	59.7609
JAPAN	YEN	101.7400	102.0629	101.7738	99.6727
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1808	3.2175	3.2291	3.1916
MEXICO	PESO	12.9914	12.9932	12.9330	12.7615
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8687	0.8621	0.8605	0.7885
NORWAY	KRONE	6.1992	6.0437	5.9389	6.0246
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2427	1.2512	1.2514	1.2681
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.6577	10.6766	10.4092	9.9133
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1021.0341	1018.7443	1024.7867	1125.0300
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.2123	130.2714	130.3833	131.1345
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.8189	6.6859	6.5719	6.6161
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.8978	0.8958	0.8883	0.9449
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.9491	29.9900	30.1167	29.9373
THAILAND	BAHT	32.0864	32.4905	32.5257	31.1082
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.7066	1.6908	1.6842	1.5179
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	102.3074	102.5571	102.4061	102.2418
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	76.5130	76.6420	76.4281	77.3633
3) OITP	JAN97=100	129.8992	130.2915	130.2328	128.6498

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