Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: August 1, 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 JULY 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 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 July 2015
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7529 0.7401 0.7318 0.7407
BRAZIL REAL 3.2781 3.4234 3.5403 3.2288
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3052 1.2894 1.2945 1.2863
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.6771 6.5892 6.5259 6.2085
DENMARK KRONE 6.7293 6.6210 6.5762 6.7850
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1055 1.1232 1.1312 1.0997
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7568 7.7620 7.7635 7.7514
INDIA RUPEE 67.1580 67.2655 66.8895 63.6045
JAPAN YEN 104.1910 105.3509 108.8481 123.3109
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.0151 4.0772 4.0375 3.8020
MEXICO PESO 18.6155 18.6538 18.1360 15.9515
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7132 0.7041 0.6807 0.6650
NORWAY KRONE 8.4795 8.3064 8.2269 8.1255
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3513 1.3533 1.3695 1.3616
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 14.3930 15.0500 15.3257 12.4602
SOUTH KOREA WON 1140.8650 1165.2023 1173.7905 1146.5468
SRI LANKA RUPEE 145.4010 145.8609 145.9081 133.6818
SWEDEN KRONA 8.5722 8.3043 8.2154 8.5325
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9830 0.9695 0.9777 0.9547
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.1010 32.3000 32.5390 31.1909
THAILAND BAHT 35.0410 35.2668 35.4076 34.3518
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3134 1.4197 1.4524 1.5560
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 121.9331 121.1508 120.7668 117.1636
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 90.8889 89.5654 89.7514 91.7276
3) OITP JAN97=100 155.2342 155.1899 154.0914 143.7881

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
Last update: August 01, 2016