Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: May 2, 2016

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 APRIL 2016 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	April 2016	March 2016	February 2016	April 2015
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7664	0.7504	0.7134	0.7740
BRAZIL	REAL	3.5634	3.6980	3.9644	3.0421
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.2818	1.3226	1.3797	1.2337
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.4754	6.5027	6.5501	6.2010
DENMARK	KRONE	6.5591	6.6986	6.7287	6.9011
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.1346	1.1134	1.1092	1.0822
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7556	7.7604	7.7829	7.7509
INDIA	RUPEE	66.4219	66.8909	68.2395	62.6414
JAPAN	YEN	109.5519	112.9317	114.6155	119.5095
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.8971	4.0644	4.1780	3.6320
MEXICO	PESO	17.4795	17.6303	18.4332	15.1943
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.6892	0.6745	0.6633	0.7596
NORWAY	KRONE	8.2082	8.4754	8.6127	7.8774
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3496	1.3724	1.4052	1.3482
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	14.5868	15.3792	15.7622	11.9755
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1145.7967	1181.5730	1216.2285	1084.6709
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	145.2019	145.1335	143.6390	132.9227
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.1110	8.3394	8.4804	8.6321
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9634	0.9811	0.9920	0.9595
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	32.3200	32.5874	33.2385	30.9709
THAILAND	BAHT	35.0629	35.2117	35.5955	32.5141
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.4319	1.4249	1.4290	1.4968
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	9.9750	8.6912	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	119.5276	121.4929	124.0358	115.0775
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	89.3747	91.4980	93.1671	90.9386
3) OITP	JAN97=100	151.8156	153.4871	157.0112	140.2491

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