Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: November 3, 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 OCTOBER 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	October 2014	September 2014	August 2014	October 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.8781	0.9042	0.9309	0.9519
BRAZIL	REAL	2.4495	2.3379	2.2685	2.1882
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.1212	1.1011	1.0926	1.0363
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1251	6.1382	6.1541	6.1032
DENMARK	KRONE	5.8723	5.7757	5.5987	5.4662
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2677	1.2889	1.3315	1.3646
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7572	7.7526	7.7504	7.7536
INDIA	RUPEE	61.3668	60.8976	60.8738	61.6059
JAPAN	YEN	108.0264	107.4257	102.9438	97.7700
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.2677	3.2182	3.1766	3.1734
MEXICO	PESO	13.4795	13.2370	13.1436	12.9916
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7876	0.8134	0.8437	0.8345
NORWAY	KRONE	6.5600	6.3525	6.1935	5.9491
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2745	1.2638	1.2484	1.2431
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	11.0594	10.9908	10.6632	9.8979
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1060.3359	1035.8914	1024.5500	1065.8573
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.5618	130.2562	130.1748	130.9955
SWEDEN	KRONA	7.2456	7.1302	6.8983	6.4080
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9528	0.9370	0.9098	0.9025
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.3964	30.1310	29.9729	29.3768
THAILAND	BAHT	32.4418	32.1971	32.0048	31.1850
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6074	1.6290	1.6700	1.6098
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	105.9504	104.6070	103.0464	100.7442
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	80.8267	79.5967	77.5510	75.0709
3) OITP	JAN97=100	132.5562	131.1290	130.2476	128.2912

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