Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: March 1, 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 FEBRUARY 2013 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	February 2013	January 2013	December 2012	February 2012
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0310	1.0500	1.0465	1.0732
BRAZIL	REAL	1.9729	2.0281	2.0775	1.7168
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0098	0.9921	0.9898	0.9967
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.2323	6.2215	6.2328	6.2997
DENMARK	KRONE	5.5894	5.6087	5.6864	5.6156
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3347	1.3304	1.3119	1.3238
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7552	7.7530	7.7501	7.7544
INDIA	RUPEE	53.8079	54.2290	54.6470	49.1812
JAPAN	YEN	93.0016	89.0581	83.7905	78.4700
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0964	3.0407	3.0537	3.0220
MEXICO	PESO	12.7249	12.6964	12.8651	12.7833
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8385	0.8370	0.8312	0.8349
NORWAY	KRONE	5.5648	5.5500	5.6103	5.7097
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2382	1.2282	1.2204	1.2535
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.8766	8.7978	8.6116	7.6388
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1087.3084	1066.5205	1075.2225	1122.6900
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	126.7342	126.7200	128.0360	117.2810
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.3756	6.4801	6.5936	6.6619
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9212	0.9234	0.9213	0.9118
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.6321	29.1000	29.0445	29.5340
THAILAND	BAHT	29.8105	30.0410	30.6155	30.6850
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5474	1.5965	1.6145	1.5804
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	5.6554	4.2893	4.2893	4.2896
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	99.7849	98.9354	99.0074	98.1027
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	74.5691	73.5437	73.0996	72.2595
3) OITP	JAN97=100	126.7199	126.1646	126.9327	126.0088

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