G.5(405) May 2, 2011 Foreign Exchange Rates The table below shows the average rates of exchange in APRIL 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 2011 2010 COUNTRY UNIT April March February April *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0588 1.0113 1.0084 0.9262 BRAZIL REAL 1.5833 1.6574 1.6664 1.7568 CANADA DOLLAR 0.9580 0.9766 0.9876 1.0052 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5267 6.5645 6.5761 6.8256 DENMARK KRONE 5.1577 5.3191 5.4596 5.5472 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4460 1.4020 1.3656 1.3417 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7716 7.7913 7.7895 7.7627 INDIA RUPEE 44.3010 44.9143 45.3795 44.4440 JAPAN YEN 83.1771 81.6470 82.5368 93.4527 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0101 3.0341 3.0453 3.2044 MEXICO PESO 11.7059 11.9963 12.0649 12.2396 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7894 0.7423 0.7620 0.7122 NORWAY KRONE 5.4015 5.5913 5.7319 5.9169 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2463 1.2678 1.2757 1.3817 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.7209 6.8976 7.1844 7.3444 SOUTH KOREA WON 1083.1762 1119.2674 1117.4368 1115.4591 SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.2129 110.3022 110.8074 113.8286 SWEDEN KRONA 6.1990 6.3493 6.4342 7.2026 SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.8972 0.9185 0.9500 1.0690 TAIWAN DOLLAR 28.9824 29.4930 29.2779 31.4767 THAILAND BAHT 30.0424 30.3330 30.6953 32.2686 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6379 1.6159 1.6124 1.5332 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 95.5427 97.1432 98.1070 101.7625 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 69.7484 71.0182 72.2161 75.5678 3)OITP JAN97=100 123.5919 125.5057 125.9973 129.6967 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