Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: November 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 OCTOBER 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	October 2011	September 2011	August 2011	October 2010
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0168	1.0220	1.0502	0.9818
BRAZIL	REAL	1.7703	1.7492	1.5966	1.6837
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0198	1.0025	0.9817	1.0179
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3710	6.3885	6.4036	6.6678
DENMARK	KRONE	5.4225	5.4170	5.1973	5.3638
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3732	1.3747	1.4333	1.3901
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7774	7.7943	7.7965	7.7580
INDIA	RUPEE	49.2020	47.6905	45.3135	44.3540
JAPAN	YEN	76.6430	76.7957	76.9657	81.7285
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1336	3.0838	2.9824	3.0989
MEXICO	PESO	13.4379	13.0637	12.2366	12.4393
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7912	0.8119	0.8379	0.7520
NORWAY	KRONE	5.6405	5.6257	5.4353	5.8322
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2757	1.2537	1.2089	1.3026
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.9540	7.5769	7.0871	6.9087
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1150.6850	1121.9095	1073.8870	1121.9400
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	110.0875	110.0529	109.7139	111.6670
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.6396	6.6460	6.3970	6.6770
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.8958	0.8767	0.7800	0.9686
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.2590	29.7395	28.9674	30.8130
THAILAND	BAHT	30.8395	30.4571	29.8735	29.9205
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5768	1.5771	1.6356	1.5867
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	98.9030	97.9894	95.1524	98.8397
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	71.6060	71.1694	69.0690	72.2999
3) OITP	JAN97=100	128.8255	127.3082	123.6795	127.6719

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