Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: November 1, 2018
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 2018 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 2018 September 2018 August 2018 October 2017
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7111 0.7206 0.7325 0.7788
BRAZIL REAL 3.7611 4.1087 3.9333 3.1923
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3004 1.3034 1.3042 1.2607
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.9191 6.8551 6.8453 6.6254
DENMARK KRONE 6.4939 6.3938 6.4574 6.3318
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1488 1.1667 1.1547 1.1755
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8375 7.8364 7.8492 7.8053
INDIA RUPEE 73.5609 72.2779 69.6317 65.0357
JAPAN YEN 112.7218 112.0974 110.9965 112.9148
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.1570 4.1388 4.0917 4.2280
MEXICO PESO 19.1958 18.9991 18.8633 18.8215
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6537 0.6598 0.6669 0.7041
NORWAY KRONE 8.2545 8.2464 8.3398 7.9970
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3790 1.3710 1.3687 1.3595
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 14.4869 14.7504 14.0916 13.6975
SOUTH KOREA WON 1131.6150 1119.8200 1120.4270 1130.8838
SRI LANKA RUPEE 171.3614 165.2237 160.3217 153.4905
SWEDEN KRONA 9.0391 8.9395 9.0690 8.1776
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9940 0.9683 0.9880 0.9821
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.8823 30.7253 30.7039 30.2519
THAILAND BAHT 32.7636 32.5784 33.0130 33.2186
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3012 1.3066 1.2878 1.3202
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 63.1191 61.4953 2495016.2 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 126.8762 126.0398 125.3340 120.0242
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 90.7738 89.9976 90.4367 88.6866
3) OITP JAN97=100 166.5287 165.6793 163.4462 153.7160

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, 2018