G.5(405) March 1, 2007 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2007 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) MONETARY 2007 2007 2006 2006 COUNTRY UNIT February January December February *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7830 0.7826 0.7858 0.7418 BRAZIL REAL 2.0939 2.1376 2.1476 2.1587 CANADA DOLLAR 1.1710 1.1763 1.1532 1.1489 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.7502 7.7876 7.8219 8.0512 DENMARK KRONE 5.6981 5.7364 5.6452 6.2514 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3080 1.2993 1.3205 1.1940 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8114 7.8000 7.7733 7.7593 INDIA RUPEE 44.02 44.21 44.48 44.23 JAPAN YEN 120.50 120.45 117.32 117.86 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4949 3.5065 3.5477 3.7276 MEXICO PESO 10.995 10.956 10.855 10.484 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6934 0.6947 0.6933 0.6735 NORWAY KRONE 6.1860 6.3656 6.1826 6.7526 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5333 1.5373 1.5401 1.6286 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.1755 7.1898 7.0345 6.1153 SOUTH KOREA WON 936.90 936.76 924.98 969.84 SRI LANKA RUPEE 108.684 108.522 107.791 102.194 SWEDEN KRONA 7.0200 6.9901 6.8398 7.8226 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.2393 1.2431 1.2099 1.3052 TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.968 32.770 32.512 32.319 THAILAND BAHT 33.888 35.189 35.694 39.343 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.9589 1.9587 1.9629 1.7480 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.62 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 107.23 107.59 106.53 110.26 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 82.07 82.37 80.89 85.05 3)OITP JAN97=100 132.77 133.18 133.03 135.38 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 "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 to the trade weights and the dollar indexes took effect with the January 2007 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. For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form, please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244. 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 = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR