Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: March 1, 2006
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2006 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)                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 February 2005
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7418 0.7505 0.7423 0.7812
BRAZIL REAL 2.1587 2.2666 2.2809 2.5971
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1489 1.1572 1.1615 1.2401
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.0512 8.0654 8.0755 8.2765
DENMARK KRONE 6.2514 6.1530 6.2844 5.7195
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1940 1.2126 1.1861 1.3013
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7593 7.7537 7.7531 7.7994
INDIA RUPEE 44.23 44.20 45.56 43.58
JAPAN YEN 117.86 115.48 118.46 104.94
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.7276 3.7530 3.7780 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 10.484 10.542 10.627 11.137
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6735 0.6872 0.6947 0.7155
NORWAY KRONE 6.7526 6.6287 6.7242 6.3960
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.6286 1.6310 1.6738 1.6381
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.1153 6.0760 6.3480 6.0001
SOUTH KOREA WON 969.84 981.44 1022.38 1023.11
SRI LANKA RUPEE 102.194 102.016 101.977 99.273
SWEDEN KRONA 7.8226 7.6697 7.9518 6.9800
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.3052 1.2773 1.3053 1.1918
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.319 32.035 33.286 31.498
THAILAND BAHT 39.343 39.519 41.076 38.446
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.7480 1.7686 1.7458 1.8871
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.62 2144.64 2144.62 1915.20
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 February 2005
1)BROAD JAN97=100 110.46 110.18 111.79 109.66
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 85.22 84.44 85.83 81.81
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.35 136.02 137.72 139.55
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 (OITP) 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 December 2005 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.                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   *  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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