Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: December 5, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Nov. 28	Nov. 29	Nov. 30	Dec. 1	Dec. 2
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9924	1.0018	1.0244	1.0227	1.0221
BRAZIL	REAL	1.8545	1.8461	1.8072	1.7965	1.8002
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0327	1.0296	1.0199	1.0172	1.0165
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3839	6.3769	6.3765	6.3655	6.3596
DENMARK	KRONE	5.5770	5.5735	5.5268	5.5138	5.5545
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3334	1.3343	1.3453	1.3487	1.3386
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7932	7.7923	7.7730	7.7695	7.7676
INDIA	RUPEE	51.9400	51.9000	52.1200	51.3600	50.5000
JAPAN	YEN	78.0500	77.8600	77.5800	77.6000	77.8800
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1950	3.1790	3.1770	3.1380	3.1280
MEXICO	PESO	14.0432	13.9252	13.6201	13.5875	13.5425
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7550	0.7627	0.7769	0.7779	0.7776
NORWAY	KRONE	5.8828	5.8453	5.7643	5.7873	5.7945
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3001	1.2944	1.2825	1.2823	1.2840
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.3820	8.3531	8.1250	8.0925	8.0371
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1152.5000	1139.5000	1140.0500	1126.5500	1128.0000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	113.8200	113.7500	113.8200	113.8500	113.8700
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.9458	6.8848	6.7555	6.7618	6.7650
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9215	0.9194	0.9106	0.9135	0.9219
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.3700	30.3800	30.3100	30.1000	30.1400
THAILAND	BAHT	31.3000	31.2300	30.8800	30.8100	30.8100
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5538	1.5625	1.5705	1.5698	1.5592
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	100.8227	100.5237	99.7680	99.4901	99.6051
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	73.1464	72.9616	72.3656	72.2615	72.5567
3) OITP	JAN97=100	131.1046	130.6693	129.7559	129.2530	129.0963

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