H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES March 22, 2010 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Mar. 15 Mar. 16 Mar. 17 Mar. 18 Mar. 19 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9117 0.9148 0.9225 0.9201 0.9164 BRAZIL REAL 1.7660 1.7620 1.7655 1.7895 1.7988 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0216 1.0147 1.0110 1.0139 1.0153 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8259 6.8257 6.8259 6.8261 6.8265 DENMARK KRONE 5.4502 5.4077 5.4156 5.4681 5.4992 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3652 1.3758 1.3739 1.3603 1.3530 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7588 7.7606 7.7608 7.7608 7.7590 INDIA RUPEE 45.5500 45.4500 45.2800 45.4500 45.3100 JAPAN YEN 90.4500 90.4300 90.4200 90.4600 90.5000 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3175 3.3150 3.2970 3.3050 3.3040 MEXICO PESO 12.5640 12.5201 12.4825 12.4710 12.5600 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6999 0.7073 0.7160 0.7135 0.7091 NORWAY KRONE 5.8733 5.8227 5.8176 5.8837 5.8902 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3981 1.3949 1.3930 1.3960 1.3980 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4200 7.3675 7.2378 7.3050 7.3396 SOUTH KOREA WON 1134.5000 1133.0000 1128.0000 1131.5000 1133.5800 SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.0000 114.1000 114.0800 114.0000 114.0000 SWEDEN KRONA 7.1310 7.0615 7.0720 7.1427 7.1579 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0635 1.0556 1.0551 1.0630 1.0615 TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.8300 31.8100 31.7000 31.7400 31.7300 THAILAND BAHT 32.5400 32.4200 32.3100 32.2800 32.2900 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5043 1.5192 1.5296 1.5247 1.5014 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.6661 102.2927 102.1464 102.4595 102.7495 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.6270 75.1571 75.0496 75.4456 75.7377 3)OITP JAN97=100 132.0316 131.8862 131.6976 131.8159 132.0545 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