Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: October 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 SEPTEMBER 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	September 2014	August 2014	July 2014	September 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.9042	0.9309	0.9389	0.9303
BRAZIL	REAL	2.3379	2.2685	2.2242	2.2641
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.1011	1.0926	1.0739	1.0342
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1382	6.1541	6.1984	6.1198
DENMARK	KRONE	5.7757	5.5987	5.5097	5.5814
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2889	1.3315	1.3533	1.3364
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7526	7.7504	7.7502	7.7543
INDIA	RUPEE	60.8976	60.8738	60.0956	63.6480
JAPAN	YEN	107.4257	102.9438	101.7400	99.2100
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2182	3.1766	3.1808	3.2495
MEXICO	PESO	13.2370	13.1436	12.9914	13.0553
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8134	0.8437	0.8687	0.8163
NORWAY	KRONE	6.3525	6.1935	6.1992	5.9662
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2638	1.2484	1.2427	1.2622
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	10.9908	10.6632	10.6577	9.9616
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1035.8914	1024.5500	1021.0341	1082.3115
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.2562	130.1748	130.2123	132.3465
SWEDEN	KRONA	7.1302	6.8983	6.8189	6.4896
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9370	0.9098	0.8978	0.9231
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.1310	29.9729	29.9491	29.6225
THAILAND	BAHT	32.1971	32.0048	32.0864	31.6345
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6290	1.6700	1.7066	1.5885
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	104.8171	103.2303	102.3074	101.9230
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	79.7980	77.7272	76.5130	76.1721
3) OITP	JAN97=100	131.2692	130.3884	129.8992	129.4804

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