Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Weekly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: May 8, 2006
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Note:  

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that it will cease publication of the weekly
H.10 statistical release on Monday, May 22. 

All data contained in the weekly H.10 release, which shows daily foreign exchange rates for
the previous week, is already available in the Board's H.10 daily update available online at
www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/update/. 




FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 5, 2006                                                                                                                                                                                                              

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is advised that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has certified for customs purposes the following noon buying rates in New York City for cable transfers payable in foreign currencies: (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT May. 1 May. 2 May. 3 May. 4 May. 5
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7607 0.7631 0.7711 0.7726 0.7707
BRAZIL REAL 2.0785 2.0680 2.0685 2.0635 2.0549
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1130 1.1069 1.1072 1.1066 1.1071
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.0165 8.0165 8.0100 8.0114 8.0114
DENMARK KRONE 5.9140 5.8973 5.8993 5.8786 5.8550
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2607 1.2644 1.2639 1.2684 1.2733
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7527 7.7536 7.7526 7.7521 7.7518
INDIA RUPEE 44.77 44.82 44.81 44.81 44.85
JAPAN YEN 113.06 113.26 113.44 113.46 112.45
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.6255 3.6148 3.6080 3.6140 3.6050
MEXICO PESO 11.053 11.012 10.964 10.971 10.949
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6377 0.6410 0.6425 0.6427 0.6413
NORWAY KRONE 6.1642 6.1455 6.1265 6.1180 6.1182
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5787 1.5780 1.5720 1.5764 1.5710
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 5.9985 6.0375 6.0470 6.0410 6.0457
SOUTH KOREA WON 942.70 939.60 934.00 939.40 939.30
SRI LANKA RUPEE 102.810 102.790 102.800 102.820 102.830
SWEDEN KRONA 7.3610 7.3929 7.3632 7.3434 7.3156
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2386 1.2345 1.2351 1.2297 1.2257
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.900 31.720 31.570 31.630 31.600
THAILAND BAHT 37.400 37.550 37.690 37.710 37.620
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.8286 1.8397 1.8446 1.8485 1.8588
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR May. 1 May. 2 May. 3 May. 4 May. 5
1)BROAD JAN97=100 107.87 107.62 107.51 107.45 107.19
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 81.59 81.35 81.35 81.20 80.92
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.15 134.93 134.65 134.75 134.60
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10.                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 currencie                                                                                                                                          
   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 dollar indexes took effect                                                                                                                                                 
   in early December 2005, and is reflected in the December 19, 2005 release of this weekly 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.                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-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                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  5.94573  FINNISH MARKKAS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                  =  6.55957  FRENCH FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                  =  1.95583  GERMAN MARKS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  .787564  IRISH POUNDS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  1936.27  ITALIAN LIRE                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  40.3399  LUXEMBOURG FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                 
                  =  2.20371  NETHERLANDS GUILDERS                                                                                                                                                                                              
                  =  200.482  PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS                                                                                                                                                                                                
                  =  166.386  SPANISH PESETAS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                  =  340.750  GREEK DRACHMAS                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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