H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES February 17, 2009 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Feb. 9 Feb. 10 Feb. 11 Feb. 12 Feb. 13 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6834 0.6589 0.6549 0.6507 0.6595 BRAZIL REAL 2.2375 2.2663 2.2649 2.2940 2.2765 CANADA DOLLAR 1.2190 1.2332 1.2418 1.2478 1.2435 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8392 6.8241 6.8332 6.8345 6.8392 DENMARK KRONE 5.7045 5.7461 5.7790 5.8115 5.7859 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3064 1.2966 1.2893 1.2822 1.2879 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7520 7.7515 7.7511 7.7519 7.7528 INDIA RUPEE 48.5200 48.6800 48.7800 48.7000 48.5800 JAPAN YEN 91.4700 90.6500 90.6600 90.5500 91.8400 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.5985 3.5865 3.6020 3.6185 3.6020 MEXICO PESO 14.1340 14.3775 14.5423 14.5880 14.4650 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5442 0.5286 0.5260 0.5203 0.5266 NORWAY KRONE 6.6179 6.7063 6.7646 6.8709 6.7705 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4921 1.5040 1.5050 1.5118 1.5077 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.6100 9.7500 9.8775 10.0751 9.9345 SOUTH KOREA WON 1374.0000 1388.0000 1390.0000 1394.0000 1403.5000 SRI LANKA RUPEE 113.9700 113.8800 113.9000 113.9200 113.9500 SWEDEN KRONA 7.9905 8.1988 8.3834 8.4300 8.3500 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1566 1.1535 1.1599 1.1634 1.1581 TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.7100 33.9500 33.9700 34.0200 34.0300 THAILAND BAHT 34.9900 34.9700 35.0500 35.1400 35.1200 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4936 1.4604 1.4367 1.4248 1.4422 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 109.7545 110.4447 110.9484 111.3001 111.0471 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 81.2614 81.9028 82.4238 82.7763 82.6338 3)OITP JAN97=100 140.7832 141.4424 141.8324 142.1248 141.7231 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 of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect with the January 2, 2007 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 L.P. * 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 = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR