Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: January 2, 2008
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 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 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 December 2006
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8719 0.8961 0.8996 0.7858
BRAZIL REAL 1.7852 1.7669 1.7987 2.1476
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0021 0.9672 0.9754 1.1532
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 7.3682 7.4210 7.5019 7.8219
DENMARK KRONE 5.1235 5.0766 5.2363 5.6452
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4559 1.4683 1.4233 1.3205
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7983 7.7774 7.7545 7.7733
INDIA RUPEE 39.38 39.33 39.37 44.48
JAPAN YEN 112.45 111.07 115.87 117.32
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3324 3.3588 3.3735 3.5477
MEXICO PESO 10.846 10.881 10.821 10.855
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7690 0.7631 0.7603 0.6933
NORWAY KRONE 5.5000 5.4156 5.4023 6.1826
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4487 1.4466 1.4650 1.5401
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.8376 6.7049 6.7574 7.0345
SOUTH KOREA WON 931.10 918.81 914.94 924.98
SRI LANKA RUPEE 108.891 110.418 112.858 107.791
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4764 6.3242 6.4439 6.8398
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1402 1.1233 1.1741 1.2099
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.412 32.328 32.550 32.512
THAILAND BAHT 30.158 31.348 31.525 35.694
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 2.0161 2.0701 2.0449 1.9629
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60 2144.60
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 December 2006
1)BROAD JAN97=100 99.27 98.37 99.80 106.53
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.69 72.20 73.93 80.89
3)OITP JAN97=100 126.99 127.40 127.98 133.03
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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