Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: November 1, 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 OCTOBER 2017 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 2017 September 2017 August 2017 October 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7788 0.7974 0.7915 0.7615
BRAZIL REAL 3.1923 3.1325 3.1478 3.1854
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2607 1.2279 1.2608 1.3251
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.6254 6.5690 6.6670 6.7303
DENMARK KRONE 6.3318 6.2455 6.2966 6.7553
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1755 1.1913 1.1813 1.1014
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8053 7.8127 7.8217 7.7570
INDIA RUPEE 65.0357 64.4775 63.9683 66.7415
JAPAN YEN 112.9148 110.7760 109.8270 103.9075
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.2280 4.2089 4.2820 4.1738
MEXICO PESO 18.8215 17.8305 17.7969 18.8912
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7041 0.7259 0.7303 0.7153
NORWAY KRONE 7.9970 7.8382 7.8885 8.1722
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3595 1.3494 1.3608 1.3847
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.6975 13.1698 13.2149 13.9273
SOUTH KOREA WON 1130.8838 1131.5990 1130.2700 1128.1660
SRI LANKA RUPEE 153.4905 152.8125 153.0978 146.7600
SWEDEN KRONA 8.1776 8.0096 8.0835 8.8210
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9821 0.9625 0.9653 0.9876
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.2519 30.1305 30.2330 31.5860
THAILAND BAHT 33.2186 33.1385 33.2470 35.0545
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3202 1.3340 1.2952 1.2330
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1) BROAD JAN97=100 120.2367 118.1320 119.2846 122.9085
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 88.6997 87.0927 88.1905 91.9192
3) OITP JAN97=100 154.1621 151.5338 152.6903 155.9852

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

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Last Update: November 01, 2017