Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: July 1, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in JUNE 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.

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	June 2011	May 2011	April 2011	June 2010
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0617	1.0675	1.0588	0.8539
BRAZIL	REAL	1.5854	1.6136	1.5833	1.8042
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9766	0.9680	0.9580	1.0376
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.4746	6.4957	6.5267	6.8184
DENMARK	KRONE	5.1782	5.2030	5.1577	6.0873
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.4403	1.4335	1.4460	1.2223
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7850	7.7742	7.7716	7.7880
INDIA	RUPEE	44.8109	44.9024	44.3010	46.4983
JAPAN	YEN	80.4259	81.1257	83.1771	90.8059
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0269	3.0127	3.0101	3.2633
MEXICO	PESO	11.8055	11.6542	11.7059	12.7102
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8157	0.7959	0.7894	0.6926
NORWAY	KRONE	5.4366	5.4766	5.4015	6.4728
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2336	1.2387	1.2463	1.3976
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	6.7859	6.8556	6.7209	7.6356
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1080.4523	1084.3619	1083.1762	1214.1114
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	109.5391	109.7629	110.2129	113.5605
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.3273	6.2526	6.1990	7.8261
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.8401	0.8740	0.8972	1.1255
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	28.8118	28.7262	28.9824	32.1988
THAILAND	BAHT	30.4995	30.2210	30.0424	32.4459
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6219	1.6332	1.6379	1.4768
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.1464	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	95.4767	95.4866	95.5427	105.2660
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	69.7637	69.8523	69.7484	79.3580
3) OITP	JAN97=100	123.4082	123.2974	123.5919	132.4115

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.
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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
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA
= 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR