Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: January 3, 2017

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 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	December 2016	November 2016	October 2016	December 2015
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7346	0.7532	0.7615	0.7247
BRAZIL	REAL	3.3540	3.3369	3.1854	3.8808
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3339	1.3434	1.3251	1.3713
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.9198	6.8402	6.7303	6.4491
DENMARK	KRONE	7.0524	6.8973	6.7553	6.8530
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.0545	1.0792	1.1014	1.0889
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7586	7.7560	7.7570	7.7507
INDIA	RUPEE	67.8052	67.6395	66.7415	66.5023
JAPAN	YEN	115.9981	108.4430	103.9075	121.6350
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.4573	4.3259	4.1738	4.2791
MEXICO	PESO	20.4992	20.0086	18.8912	17.0696
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7039	0.7153	0.7153	0.6748
NORWAY	KRONE	8.5617	8.4147	8.1722	8.6971
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.4358	1.4105	1.3847	1.4081
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	13.8377	13.9125	13.9273	15.0024
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1183.0700	1162.7080	1128.1660	1169.9464
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	148.8152	147.8100	146.7600	143.3350
SWEDEN	KRONA	9.2070	9.1266	8.8210	8.4938
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	1.0194	0.9963	0.9876	0.9951
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	32.0005	31.7495	31.5860	32.7905
THAILAND	BAHT	35.7776	35.3345	35.0545	35.9936
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.2483	1.2432	1.2330	1.4981
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	9.9750	9.9756	9.9750	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	127.7404	125.8049	122.9086	122.1836
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	95.4259	93.6646	91.9193	93.9241
3) OITP	JAN97=100	162.2527	160.1957	155.9851	151.9088

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