Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Release Date: October 3, 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 SEPTEMBER 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 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 September 2010
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 1.0220 1.0502 1.0781 0.9398
BRAZIL REAL 1.7492 1.5966 1.5625 1.7180
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0025 0.9817 0.9553 1.0330
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3885 6.4036 6.4575 6.7396
DENMARK KRONE 5.4170 5.1973 5.2230 5.6867
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3747 1.4333 1.4275 1.3103
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7943 7.7965 7.7892 7.7643
INDIA RUPEE 47.6905 45.3135 44.3960 45.8729
JAPAN YEN 76.7957 76.9657 79.2425 84.3571
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.0838 2.9824 2.9924 3.1032
MEXICO PESO 13.0637 12.2366 11.6741 12.7977
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8119 0.8379 0.8480 0.7288
NORWAY KRONE 5.6257 5.4353 5.4502 6.0431
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2537 1.2089 1.2158 1.3333
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.5769 7.0871 6.7871 7.1100
SOUTH KOREA WON 1121.9095 1073.8870 1057.4250 1159.9310
SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.0529 109.7139 109.4570 112.3029
SWEDEN KRONA 6.6460 6.3970 6.3957 7.0397
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.8767 0.7800 0.8214 1.0002
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.7395 28.9674 28.8350 31.6410
THAILAND BAHT 30.4571 29.8735 30.0475 30.7771
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5771 1.6356 1.6158 1.5591
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 97.9894 95.1524 94.6180 101.4849
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 71.1694 69.0690 69.1159 74.9853
3) OITP JAN97=100 127.3082 123.6795 122.3575 130.0254

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
Last update: October 3, 2011