Federal Reserve Statistical Release, G.5, Foreign Exchange Rates (Monthly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: April 1, 2010
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN MARCH 2010 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 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 March 2009
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9123 0.8857 0.9127 0.6666
BRAZIL REAL 1.7855 1.8420 1.7817 2.3161
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0229 1.0572 1.0438 1.2645
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8262 6.8285 6.8269 6.8360
DENMARK KRONE 5.4837 5.4414 5.2177 5.7137
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3570 1.3680 1.4266 1.3050
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7612 7.7670 7.7624 7.7530
INDIA RUPEE 45.4509 46.2732 45.8944 51.1291
JAPAN YEN 90.7161 90.1395 91.1011 97.8550
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.3205 3.4139 3.3750 3.6726
MEXICO PESO 12.5673 12.9396 12.8096 14.6466
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7036 0.6973 0.7263 0.5336
NORWAY KRONE 5.9204 5.9182 5.7402 6.7855
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3994 1.4122 1.3965 1.5296
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4057 7.6680 7.4631 9.9536
SOUTH KOREA WON 1136.0822 1155.6553 1138.1947 1449.6159
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.1039 114.5079 114.3589 114.2836
SWEDEN KRONA 7.1630 7.2683 7.1534 8.5727
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0666 1.0722 1.0345 1.1555
TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.8291 32.0621 31.8658 34.3041
THAILAND BAHT 32.4913 33.1221 33.0274 35.7368
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5058 1.5618 1.6158 1.4170
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 3.6137 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 March 2009
1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.8725 103.7289 102.1209 112.4505
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.8640 76.1771 74.5177 83.8370
3)OITP JAN97=100 132.1529 133.7989 132.5548 143.2446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 May 2009 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                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  .585274  CYPRUS POUND                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  5.94573  FINNISH MARKKAS                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                  =  6.55957  FRENCH FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                     
                  =  1.95583  GERMAN MARKS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  340.750  GREEK DRACHMAS                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                  =  .787564  IRISH POUNDS                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  1936.27  ITALIAN LIRE                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  40.3399  LUXEMBOURG FRANCS                                                                                                                                                                                                 
                  =  .429300  MALTESE LIRA                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                  =  2.20371  NETHERLANDS GUILDERS                                                                                                                                                                                              
                  =  200.482  PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS                                                                                                                                                                                                
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