Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: November 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 OCTOBER 2015 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	October 2015	September 2015	August 2015	October 2014
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7200	0.7059	0.7295	0.8781
BRAZIL	REAL	3.8752	3.9032	3.5154	2.4495
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3072	1.3266	1.3147	1.1212
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3505	6.3676	6.3383	6.1251
DENMARK	KRONE	6.6453	6.6447	6.7035	5.8723
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.1228	1.1229	1.1136	1.2677
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7499	7.7501	7.7530	7.7572
INDIA	RUPEE	65.0262	66.1667	65.0971	61.3668
JAPAN	YEN	120.0481	120.1476	123.0038	108.0264
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.2557	4.3076	4.0623	3.2677
MEXICO	PESO	16.5697	16.8387	16.5340	13.4795
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.6693	0.6339	0.6549	0.7876
NORWAY	KRONE	8.2700	8.2845	8.2524	6.5600
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.4005	1.4148	1.3981	1.2745
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	13.4928	13.6388	12.9012	11.0594
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1143.1990	1184.3300	1178.1438	1060.3359
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	140.8510	139.2329	133.8519	130.5618
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.3314	8.3659	8.5515	7.2456
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9687	0.9725	0.9685	0.9528
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	32.4367	32.6695	32.1914	30.3964
THAILAND	BAHT	35.6790	36.0114	35.3938	32.4418
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5343	1.5338	1.5578	1.6074
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	119.2432	120.3733	119.4263	105.9494
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	91.2225	91.7534	91.9342	80.8698
3) OITP	JAN97=100	148.8912	150.7090	148.4372	132.5150

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