Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: September 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 AUGUST 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	August 2011	July 2011	June 2011	August 2010
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0502	1.0781	1.0617	0.9004
BRAZIL	REAL	1.5966	1.5625	1.5854	1.7589
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9817	0.9553	0.9766	1.0404
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.4036	6.4575	6.4746	6.7873
DENMARK	KRONE	5.1973	5.2230	5.1782	5.7745
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.4333	1.4275	1.4403	1.2903
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7965	7.7892	7.7850	7.7702
INDIA	RUPEE	45.3135	44.3960	44.8109	46.4605
JAPAN	YEN	76.9657	79.2425	80.4259	85.3727
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	2.9824	2.9924	3.0269	3.1516
MEXICO	PESO	12.2366	11.6741	11.8055	12.7660
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8379	0.8480	0.8157	0.7150
NORWAY	KRONE	5.4353	5.4502	5.4366	6.1481
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2089	1.2158	1.2336	1.3551
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.0871	6.7871	6.7859	7.2877
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1073.8870	1057.4250	1080.4523	1179.5159
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	109.7139	109.4570	109.5391	112.3968
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.3970	6.3957	6.3273	7.3015
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.7800	0.8214	0.8401	1.0388
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	28.9674	28.8350	28.8118	31.8695
THAILAND	BAHT	29.8735	30.0475	30.4995	31.7173
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6356	1.6158	1.6219	1.5661
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2897
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	95.1524	94.6180	95.2903	102.4857
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	69.0690	69.1159	69.5772	75.9470
3) OITP	JAN97=100	123.6795	122.3575	123.2690	130.9966

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