Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: November 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 OCTOBER 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 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 October 2012
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9519 0.9303 0.9037 1.0298
BRAZIL REAL 2.1882 2.2641 2.3408 2.0297
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0363 1.0342 1.0407 0.9872
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.1032 6.1198 6.1213 6.2627
DENMARK KRONE 5.4662 5.5814 5.6014 5.7486
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3646 1.3364 1.3314 1.2974
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7536 7.7543 7.7553 7.7515
INDIA RUPEE 61.6059 63.6480 62.8109 53.0995
JAPAN YEN 97.7700 99.2100 97.8123 79.0132
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1734 3.2495 3.2769 3.0524
MEXICO PESO 12.9916 13.0553 12.9120 12.8976
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.8345 0.8163 0.7916 0.8197
NORWAY KRONE 5.9491 5.9662 5.9677 5.7078
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.2431 1.2622 1.2724 1.2237
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.8979 9.9616 10.0708 8.6424
SOUTH KOREA WON 1065.8573 1082.3115 1115.9418 1105.3823
SRI LANKA RUPEE 130.9955 132.3465 131.9682 129.0859
SWEDEN KRONA 6.4080 6.4896 6.5365 6.6400
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9025 0.9231 0.9261 0.9323
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.3768 29.6225 29.9414 29.2418
THAILAND BAHT 31.1850 31.6345 31.5645 30.6764
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6098 1.5885 1.5505 1.6080
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 6.2842 6.2842 6.2842 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.8978 101.9230 102.1293 98.9592
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 75.2182 76.1721 76.4612 72.7874
3) OITP JAN97=100 128.4252 129.4804 129.5667 127.2724

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
Last update: November 1, 2013