Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: January 2, 2013

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 DECEMBER 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	December 2012	November 2012	October 2012	December 2011
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0465	1.0405	1.0298	1.0122
BRAZIL	REAL	2.0775	2.0662	2.0297	1.8391
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9898	0.9970	0.9872	1.0235
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.2328	6.2338	6.2627	6.3482
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6864	5.8100	5.7486	5.6521
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3119	1.2837	1.2974	1.3155
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7501	7.7505	7.7515	7.7767
INDIA	RUPEE	54.6470	54.7845	53.0995	52.3824
JAPAN	YEN	83.7905	81.0305	79.0132	77.7967
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0537	3.0555	3.0524	3.1590
MEXICO	PESO	12.8651	13.0639	12.8976	13.7746
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8312	0.8195	0.8197	0.7699
NORWAY	KRONE	5.6103	5.7180	5.7078	5.8912
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2204	1.2232	1.2237	1.2954
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.6116	8.7994	8.6424	8.1933
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1075.2225	1086.9525	1105.3823	1148.1262
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	128.0360	130.2340	129.0859	113.8067
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.5936	6.7059	6.6400	6.8553
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9213	0.9388	0.9323	0.9334
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.0445	29.1145	29.2418	30.2505
THAILAND	BAHT	30.6155	30.6945	30.6764	31.1743
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6145	1.5968	1.6080	1.5587
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	99.0074	99.5862	98.9623	100.4509
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	73.0996	73.5981	72.7435	73.2197
3) OITP	JAN97=100	126.9327	127.5777	127.3178	130.0911

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