Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: August 29, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Aug. 22	Aug. 23	Aug. 24	Aug. 25	Aug. 26
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0417	1.0510	1.0471	1.0457	1.0573
BRAZIL	REAL	1.6058	1.5991	1.6051	1.6115	1.6055
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9901	0.9876	0.9878	0.9842	0.9854
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.4004	6.3975	6.3880	6.3900	6.3860
DENMARK	KRONE	5.1781	5.1617	5.1729	5.1807	5.1498
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.4384	1.4431	1.4402	1.4380	1.4463
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7989	7.7970	7.7950	7.7951	7.7962
INDIA	RUPEE	45.5600	45.6200	45.8900	46.0400	46.1500
JAPAN	YEN	76.7700	76.5900	76.7800	77.3800	76.6200
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	2.9630	2.9635	2.9750	2.9870	2.9850
MEXICO	PESO	12.3227	12.3155	12.4222	12.4155	12.4657
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8239	0.8349	0.8281	0.8289	0.8403
NORWAY	KRONE	5.4446	5.4265	5.4282	5.4184	5.3661
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2085	1.2038	1.2055	1.2105	1.2035
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.2250	7.1985	7.2460	7.2159	7.1301
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1083.1500	1077.2000	1083.6500	1088.2500	1079.5000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	109.9000	109.9500	109.9000	109.9500	109.9500
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.3523	6.3294	6.3176	6.3272	6.2952
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.7877	0.7891	0.7950	0.7959	0.8055
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.0100	28.9600	29.0100	29.0000	29.0300
THAILAND	BAHT	29.8200	29.8300	29.9100	29.9900	29.9600
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6452	1.6509	1.6375	1.6289	1.6321
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	95.3236	95.1433	95.3673	95.4835	95.3030
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	69.1245	68.9255	69.0790	69.1732	68.9256
3) OITP	JAN97=100	124.0012	123.8661	124.1704	124.3071	124.2426

N = No data for this date.

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