Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: April 1, 2014

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 MARCH 2014 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	March 2014	February 2014	January 2014	March 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9089	0.8974	0.8858	1.0345
BRAZIL	REAL	2.3251	2.3792	2.3858	1.9842
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.1107	1.1054	1.0940	1.0244
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1729	6.0816	6.0509	6.2154
DENMARK	KRONE	5.3975	5.4606	5.4787	5.7552
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3828	1.3665	1.3618	1.2953
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7612	7.7585	7.7578	7.7592
INDIA	RUPEE	60.9476	62.1642	62.1057	54.4229
JAPAN	YEN	102.3395	102.1253	103.7614	94.7700
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2801	3.3068	3.3028	3.1074
MEXICO	PESO	13.1929	13.2928	13.2220	12.5000
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8539	0.8297	0.8275	0.8284
NORWAY	KRONE	5.9955	6.1147	6.1622	5.7806
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2672	1.2659	1.2726	1.2466
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.7445	10.9506	10.8872	9.1927
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1070.4910	1071.3063	1067.1267	1102.8710
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.5857	130.7968	130.6857	126.7005
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.4114	6.4930	6.4862	6.4455
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.8805	0.8937	0.9038	0.9466
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.3995	30.3063	30.1357	29.7448
THAILAND	BAHT	32.3619	32.6179	32.9262	29.4948
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6624	1.6558	1.6470	1.5080
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	103.1349	103.2240	102.9932	100.7203
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	76.8239	77.1463	77.3191	76.3487
3) OITP	JAN97=100	131.3543	131.1309	130.3867	126.5591

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