Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: January 2, 2009
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN DECEMBER 2008 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 2008 November 2008 October 2008 December 2007
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6719 0.6591 0.6870 0.8719
BRAZIL REAL 2.3956 2.2704 2.1810 1.7852
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2337 1.2171 1.1847 1.0021
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8539 6.8281 6.8358 7.3682
DENMARK KRONE 5.5239 5.8448 5.6253 5.1235
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3511 1.2744 1.3266 1.4559
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7504 7.7507 7.7588 7.7983
INDIA RUPEE 48.5132 48.8517 48.6155 39.3750
JAPAN YEN 91.2750 96.9656 99.9659 112.4490
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.5483 3.5843 3.5222 3.3324
MEXICO PESO 13.4167 13.1186 12.6593 10.8463
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5597 0.5664 0.6077 0.7690
NORWAY KRONE 7.0159 6.9290 6.4973 5.5000
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4769 1.5076 1.4784 1.4487
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.9227 10.1112 9.7800 6.8376
SOUTH KOREA WON 1361.5727 1398.7044 1329.1877 931.0950
SRI LANKA RUPEE 111.4464 109.9594 108.1661 108.8910
SWEDEN KRONA 8.0124 7.9612 7.4435 6.4764
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1404 1.1910 1.1429 1.1402
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.1555 33.1028 32.7025 32.4115
THAILAND BAHT 35.0086 35.0350 34.4209 30.1580
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4854 1.5327 1.6862 2.0161
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 December 2007
1)BROAD JAN97=100 108.4748 109.6314 106.9513 99.2654
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 80.6853 82.7427 80.4186 73.6903
3)OITP JAN97=100 138.5069 137.9467 135.0857 126.9944
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 July 2008 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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