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Release Date: December 02, 2002
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G.5(405) November 29, 2002
 

 

 

FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
 

THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN NOVEMBER 2002 TOGETHER
WITH COMPARABLE FIGURES FOR OTHER MONTHS. AVERAGES ARE BASED ON DAILY NOON BUYING
RATES FOR CABLE TRANSFERS IN NEW YORK CITY CERTIFIED FOR CUSTOMS PURPOSES BY
THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK.
 

 

(Currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRYMONETARY
UNIT
2002
November
2002
October
2002
September
2001
November
 *AUSTRALIA        DOLLAR          0.5613       0.5502       0.5465       0.5165 
  BRAZIL           REAL            3.5924       3.7966       3.3548       2.5481 
  CANADA           DOLLAR          1.5715       1.5780       1.5761       1.5922 
  CHINA, P.R.      YUAN            8.2772       8.2772       8.2760       8.2769 
  DENMARK          KRONE           7.4201       7.5732       7.5752       8.3832 
 *EMU MEMBERS      EURO            1.0013       0.9812       0.9806       0.8883 
  HONG KONG        DOLLAR          7.7994       7.7995       7.7999       7.7996 
  INDIA            RUPEE          48.29        48.39        48.46        48.04   
  JAPAN            YEN           121.61       123.91       121.08       122.41   
  MALAYSIA         RINGGIT         3.8000       3.8000       3.8000       3.8000 
  MEXICO           PESO           10.195       10.094       10.071        9.225  
 *NEW ZEALAND      DOLLAR          0.4973       0.4818       0.4702       0.4158 
  NORWAY           KRONE           7.3157       7.4873       7.5018       8.9296 
  SINGAPORE        DOLLAR          1.7653       1.7843       1.7682       1.8295 
  SOUTH AFRICA     RAND            9.6509      10.3058      10.5967       9.7388 
  SOUTH KOREA      WON          1210.20      1240.19      1211.61      1282.10   
  SRI LANKA        RUPEE          96.426       96.402       96.207       92.670  
  SWEDEN           KRONA           9.0652       9.2846       9.3400      10.6117 
  SWITZERLAND      FRANC           1.4658       1.4932       1.4931       1.6509 
  TAIWAN           DOLLAR         34.673       34.947       34.573       34.498  
  THAILAND         BAHT           43.353       43.640       42.893       44.411  
 *UNITED KINGDOM   POUND           1.5711       1.5575       1.5563       1.4356 
  VENEZUELA        BOLIVAR      1358.61      1440.50      1458.39       745.10   
                       
  MEMO:                
  UNITED STATES    DOLLAR        
1)BROAD            JAN97=100     
2)MAJOR CURRENCY   MAR73=100      99.83       101.24       100.68       105.64   
3)OITP             JAN97=100     144.43       145.28       143.71       137.19   
                       
 

This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G5.
 

For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "New Summary Measures
of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 84 (October 1998),
pp. 811-18 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/). 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 (OITIP) index are derived from the broad index
weights. The most recent annual revision to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect
with the February 1, 2002, release of this report.
 

* 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.
 

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The euro is reported in place of the individual eure-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
= 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
= 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
= 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
= .787564 IRISH POUNDS
= 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
= 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
= 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
= 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
 

 

 


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