G.5(405) March 1, 2011 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES THE TABLE BELOW SHOWS THE AVERAGE RATES OF EXCHANGE IN FEBRUARY 2011 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) MONETARY 2011 2011 2010 2010 COUNTRY UNIT February January December February *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0084 0.9962 0.9929 0.8857 BRAZIL REAL 1.6664 1.6745 1.6955 1.8420 CANADA DOLLAR 0.9876 0.9939 1.0081 1.0572 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5761 6.5964 6.6497 6.8285 DENMARK KRONE 5.4596 5.5749 5.6366 5.4414 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3656 1.3371 1.3221 1.3680 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7895 7.7803 7.7736 7.7670 INDIA RUPEE 45.3795 45.3750 45.1000 46.2732 JAPAN YEN 82.5368 82.6250 83.3376 90.1395 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0453 3.0595 3.1283 3.4139 MEXICO PESO 12.0649 12.1280 12.3902 12.9396 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7620 0.7656 0.7511 0.6973 NORWAY KRONE 5.7319 5.8561 5.9833 5.9182 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2757 1.2863 1.3063 1.4122 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.1844 6.9239 6.8237 7.6680 SOUTH KOREA WON 1117.4368 1118.8675 1145.4833 1155.6553 SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.8074 110.8200 111.0081 114.5079 SWEDEN KRONA 6.4342 6.6673 6.8524 7.2683 SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9500 0.9565 0.9689 1.0722 TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.2779 29.1105 29.9014 32.0621 THAILAND BAHT 30.6953 30.5455 30.0857 33.1221 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6124 1.5782 1.5595 1.5618 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2898 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 97.9930 98.7859 99.9363 102.9847 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.0050 72.9456 73.8097 75.4875 3)OITP JAN97=100 126.1404 126.5698 128.0189 132.8733 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 currencies 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. For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form, please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244. 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 = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS = 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR