H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES March 21, 2011 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Mar. 14 Mar. 15 Mar. 16 Mar. 17 Mar. 18 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0073 0.9900 0.9842 0.9823 0.9953 BRAZIL REAL 1.6658 1.6673 1.6685 1.6723 1.6727 CANADA DOLLAR 0.9758 0.9831 0.9921 0.9886 0.9846 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5696 6.5730 6.5713 6.5743 6.5689 DENMARK KRONE 5.3355 5.3397 5.3572 5.3183 5.2737 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3975 1.3968 1.3922 1.4021 1.4141 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7910 7.7959 7.7962 7.8012 7.7999 INDIA RUPEE 44.9900 45.2200 45.0000 45.1200 45.0600 JAPAN YEN 81.6500 80.8200 80.1700 78.7400 81.1400 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0365 3.0650 3.0490 3.0530 3.0510 MEXICO PESO 11.9188 12.0033 12.0842 12.0997 12.0584 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7375 0.7303 0.7294 0.7208 0.7297 NORWAY KRONE 5.6061 5.6545 5.6685 5.6555 5.5942 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2675 1.2805 1.2817 1.2782 1.2744 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.8510 6.9682 7.0070 7.0705 6.9880 SOUTH KOREA WON 1127.0000 1135.6000 1132.6000 1133.1000 1126.0000 SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.1500 110.4000 110.1500 110.3000 110.4000 SWEDEN KRONA 6.3496 6.4153 6.4762 6.4105 6.3080 SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9253 0.9187 0.9120 0.8998 0.9025 TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.4800 29.5400 29.5300 29.5500 29.5900 THAILAND BAHT 30.3300 30.4100 30.3800 30.2600 30.2700 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6181 1.6064 1.6028 1.6143 1.6187 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 97.0543 97.3173 97.4954 97.1392 97.0343 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 70.9123 71.0364 71.2418 70.6815 70.6785 3)OITP JAN97=100 125.6039 126.0584 126.1623 126.2075 125.9470 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 2010 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