H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES March 15, 2010 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Mar. 8 Mar. 9 Mar. 10 Mar. 11 Mar. 12 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9084 0.9138 0.9170 0.9150 0.9152 BRAZIL REAL 1.7870 1.7894 1.7685 1.7698 1.7630 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0286 1.0249 1.0241 1.0262 1.0187 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8261 6.8263 6.8259 6.8266 6.8254 DENMARK KRONE 5.4663 5.4755 5.4476 5.4416 5.4106 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3613 1.3586 1.3658 1.3674 1.3753 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7578 7.7597 7.7587 7.7590 7.7574 INDIA RUPEE 45.5000 45.6000 45.3500 45.4900 45.4800 JAPAN YEN 90.3000 89.8900 90.6200 90.6000 90.4600 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3330 3.3395 3.3190 3.3170 3.3050 MEXICO PESO 12.6650 12.6275 12.5951 12.6125 12.5457 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6988 0.7027 0.7079 0.6996 0.7006 NORWAY KRONE 5.9038 5.9030 5.8627 5.8689 5.8342 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3992 1.3983 1.3976 1.3977 1.3940 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4031 7.3850 7.4090 7.4366 7.3848 SOUTH KOREA WON 1131.5000 1135.1500 1128.1000 1133.4300 1128.3300 SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.1500 114.1000 114.0500 113.9500 113.9400 SWEDEN KRONA 7.1164 7.1461 7.1204 7.1125 7.0597 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0744 1.0765 1.0702 1.0689 1.0599 TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.8500 31.8000 31.8300 31.7500 31.7300 THAILAND BAHT 32.6900 32.7100 32.6300 32.6600 32.5400 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5060 1.5003 1.4977 1.5052 1.5188 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.9431 102.8922 102.7442 102.7557 102.3500 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.8593 75.7932 75.7268 75.7066 75.2715 3)OITP JAN97=100 132.3394 132.3229 132.0596 132.1237 131.8356 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 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 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 = .585274 CYPRUS POUND = 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