Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: February 1, 2012

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 JANUARY 2012 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	January 2012	December 2011	November 2011	January 2011
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0415	1.0122	1.0112	0.9962
BRAZIL	REAL	1.7850	1.8391	1.7864	1.6745
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0130	1.0235	1.0248	0.9939
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3172	6.3482	6.3564	6.5964
DENMARK	KRONE	5.7599	5.6521	5.4886	5.5749
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2910	1.3155	1.3558	1.3371
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7622	7.7767	7.7809	7.7803
INDIA	RUPEE	51.0015	52.3824	50.6785	45.3750
JAPAN	YEN	76.9640	77.7967	77.5595	82.6250
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1092	3.1590	3.1521	3.0595
MEXICO	PESO	13.3829	13.7746	13.6955	12.1280
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8015	0.7699	0.7714	0.7656
NORWAY	KRONE	5.9424	5.8912	5.7405	5.8561
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2777	1.2954	1.2886	1.2863
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.0025	8.1933	8.1493	6.9239
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1140.3275	1148.1262	1133.4775	1118.8675
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	113.8195	113.8067	111.2205	110.8200
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.8463	6.8553	6.7377	6.6673
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9376	0.9334	0.9079	0.9565
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.9900	30.2505	30.2215	29.1105
THAILAND	BAHT	31.5060	31.1743	30.9315	30.5455
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5524	1.5587	1.5806	1.5782
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2898
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	99.8432	100.4641	99.5436	98.6232
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	73.3486	73.2349	72.2419	72.9276
3) OITP	JAN97=100	128.5204	130.1344	129.4075	126.2800

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
= 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
= 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