Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: October 24, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY CURRENCY Oct. 17 Oct. 18 Oct. 19 Oct. 20 Oct. 21
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0241 1.0220 1.0272 1.0187 1.0330
BRAZIL REAL 1.7491 1.7568 1.7655 1.7983 1.7702
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0153 1.0165 1.0136 1.0216 1.0090
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3695 6.3804 6.3769 6.3825 6.3823
DENMARK KRONE 5.4077 5.4269 5.4049 5.4462 5.3658
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3770 1.3719 1.3775 1.3672 1.3873
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7775 7.7773 7.7761 7.7793 7.7813
INDIA RUPEE 49.0300 49.3300 49.1700 49.8600 49.8200
JAPAN YEN 76.8000 76.7500 76.7900 76.9100 76.1000
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0988 3.1320 3.1030 3.1230 3.1470
MEXICO PESO 13.2904 13.4215 13.3802 13.7675 13.5759
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7976 0.7928 0.7950 0.7890 0.8019
NORWAY KRONE 5.6147 5.6294 5.6007 5.6442 5.5665
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2675 1.2691 1.2657 1.2727 1.2743
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.9473 8.0352 8.0177 8.2325 8.0310
SOUTH KOREA WON 1148.3500 1149.5000 1133.5000 1147.0000 1147.2000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.1500 110.1500 109.9600 110.1500 109.9600
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6392 6.6571 6.6112 6.6738 6.5712
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.8979 0.9012 0.9022 0.9002 0.8852
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.1100 30.1600 30.1200 30.2500 30.2700
THAILAND BAHT 30.6100 30.7300 30.7100 30.9900 30.9400
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5778 1.5654 1.5799 1.5726 1.5945
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 98.5375 98.8816 98.6096 99.4157 98.6202
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 71.4438 71.6201 71.3907 71.8233 70.8764
3) OITP JAN97=100 128.1983 128.7526 128.4456 129.7161 129.2258
ND = 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
Last update: October 25, 2011