Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: September 3, 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 AUGUST 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	August 2013	July 2013	June 2013	August 2012
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9037	0.9155	0.9440	1.0475
BRAZIL	REAL	2.3408	2.2518	2.1734	2.0279
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0407	1.0402	1.0314	0.9924
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1213	6.1343	6.1342	6.3593
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6014	5.6983	5.6513	6.0015
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3314	1.3088	1.3197	1.2406
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7553	7.7567	7.7602	7.7562
INDIA	RUPEE	62.8109	59.7609	58.3835	55.4935
JAPAN	YEN	97.8123	99.6727	97.2350	78.6909
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2769	3.1916	3.1433	3.1153
MEXICO	PESO	12.9120	12.7615	12.9636	13.1793
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7916	0.7885	0.7904	0.8104
NORWAY	KRONE	5.9677	6.0246	5.8759	5.9012
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2724	1.2681	1.2595	1.2480
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.0708	9.9133	10.0001	8.2596
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1115.9418	1125.0300	1135.0085	1131.7457
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	131.9682	131.1345	127.9125	131.9896
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.5365	6.6161	6.5848	6.6758
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9261	0.9449	0.9331	0.9681
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.9414	29.9373	29.9285	29.9426
THAILAND	BAHT	31.5645	31.1082	30.8160	31.3970
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5505	1.5179	1.5493	1.5722
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	102.0802	102.1934	101.6050	100.8171
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	76.2924	77.1858	76.1988	74.2421
3) OITP	JAN97=100	129.6244	128.6971	128.6734	129.5188

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