Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: July 1, 2009
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN JUNE 2009 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 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 June 2008
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8025 0.7648 0.7158 0.9511
BRAZIL REAL 1.9586 2.0689 2.2027 1.6179
CANADA DOLLAR 1.1264 1.1528 1.2242 1.0166
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8334 6.8235 6.8306 6.8993
DENMARK KRONE 5.3123 5.4585 5.6437 4.7926
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4014 1.3646 1.3199 1.5562
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7505 7.7510 7.7501 7.8073
INDIA RUPEE 47.6736 48.5100 49.9655 42.7633
JAPAN YEN 96.6145 96.6445 98.9200 106.9152
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.5156 3.5218 3.6053 3.2568
MEXICO PESO 13.3414 13.1895 13.4035 10.3269
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6386 0.6014 0.5729 0.7616
NORWAY KRONE 6.3915 6.4504 6.6557 5.1351
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4522 1.4611 1.5028 1.3679
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.0332 8.3741 8.9644 7.9367
SOUTH KOREA WON 1259.2932 1254.3450 1332.1250 1031.4857
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.8105 116.6720 117.3068 107.7633
SWEDEN KRONA 7.7670 7.7602 8.2297 6.0249
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0809 1.1076 1.1481 1.0371
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.7700 32.8695 33.6009 30.3705
THAILAND BAHT 34.1036 34.6240 35.4036 33.1752
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6369 1.5418 1.4712 1.9664
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 June 2008
1)BROAD JAN97=100 105.0557 106.4881 109.6697 96.0884
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 76.9885 78.8899 82.2812 71.4202
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.7929 136.1971 138.7375 122.7758
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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