Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: October 1, 2007
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN SEPTEMBER 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)                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 September 2006
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8461 0.8291 0.8677 0.7549
BRAZIL REAL 1.9023 1.9620 1.8812 2.1679
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0267 1.0579 1.0502 1.1161
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.5210 7.5734 7.5757 7.9334
DENMARK KRONE 5.3563 5.4621 5.4199 5.8633
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3910 1.3626 1.3726 1.2722
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7824 7.8155 7.8197 7.7825
INDIA RUPEE 40.17 40.68 40.27 46.01
JAPAN YEN 115.04 116.73 121.41 117.21
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4691 3.4826 3.4397 3.6699
MEXICO PESO 11.032 11.044 10.815 10.989
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7188 0.7259 0.7862 0.6551
NORWAY KRONE 5.6256 5.8492 5.7807 6.5008
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.5110 1.5226 1.5156 1.5803
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.1007 7.2153 6.9730 7.4465
SOUTH KOREA WON 928.60 934.48 918.12 952.29
SRI LANKA RUPEE 113.342 112.184 111.672 102.595
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6713 6.8429 6.6933 7.2844
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1852 1.2027 1.2069 1.2455
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.011 32.962 32.810 32.904
THAILAND BAHT 32.057 31.796 30.387 37.427
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 2.0184 2.0110 2.0355 1.8839
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 September 2006
1)BROAD JAN97=100 101.93 103.33 102.77 107.92
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.91 77.51 77.51 81.59
3)OITP JAN97=100 129.94 130.72 129.26 135.37
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 currencie                                                                                                                                          
   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.                                                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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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                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  239.640  SLOVENIAN TOLAR                                                                                                                                                                                                   
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