Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: January 2, 2015

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 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	December 2014	November 2014	October 2014	December 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.8257	0.8644	0.8781	0.8980
BRAZIL	REAL	2.6419	2.5527	2.4495	2.3471
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.1532	1.1325	1.1212	1.0639
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1886	6.1249	6.1251	6.0738
DENMARK	KRONE	6.0351	5.9660	5.8723	5.4418
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2329	1.2473	1.2677	1.3708
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7541	7.7543	7.7572	7.7535
INDIA	RUPEE	62.7071	61.6828	61.3668	61.8110
JAPAN	YEN	119.3233	116.2994	108.0264	103.4600
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.4768	3.3454	3.2677	3.2491
MEXICO	PESO	14.5205	13.6148	13.4795	13.0099
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7766	0.7834	0.7876	0.8224
NORWAY	KRONE	7.2772	6.8090	6.5600	6.1342
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3150	1.2964	1.2745	1.2589
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	11.4975	11.0901	11.0594	10.3683
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1102.6224	1097.8728	1060.3359	1055.6348
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	131.0786	130.9278	130.5618	130.7643
SWEDEN	KRONA	7.6289	7.4155	7.2456	6.5328
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9753	0.9642	0.9528	0.8933
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	31.3519	30.7278	30.3964	29.7233
THAILAND	BAHT	32.8876	32.7878	32.4418	32.3505
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5644	1.5771	1.6074	1.6383
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	110.4210	107.7809	105.9504	101.8162
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	84.2128	82.7752	80.8267	76.2301
3) OITP	JAN97=100	138.1804	134.1684	132.5562	129.1940

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