Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: December 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 NOVEMBER 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	November 2014	October 2014	September 2014	November 2013
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.8644	0.8781	0.9042	0.9324
BRAZIL	REAL	2.5527	2.4495	2.3379	2.2959
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.1325	1.1212	1.1011	1.0486
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.1249	6.1251	6.1382	6.0929
DENMARK	KRONE	5.9660	5.8723	5.7757	5.5281
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.2473	1.2677	1.2889	1.3491
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7543	7.7572	7.7526	7.7523
INDIA	RUPEE	61.6828	61.3668	60.8976	62.5179
JAPAN	YEN	116.2994	108.0264	107.4257	100.0737
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.3454	3.2677	3.2182	3.1961
MEXICO	PESO	13.6148	13.4795	13.2370	13.0597
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7834	0.7876	0.8134	0.8259
NORWAY	KRONE	6.8090	6.5600	6.3525	6.0856
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2964	1.2745	1.2638	1.2476
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	11.0901	11.0594	10.9908	10.2009
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1097.8728	1060.3359	1035.8914	1061.5637
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	130.9278	130.5618	130.2562	131.0895
SWEDEN	KRONA	7.4155	7.2456	7.1302	6.5863
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9642	0.9528	0.9370	0.9129
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.7278	30.3964	30.1310	29.5179
THAILAND	BAHT	32.7878	32.4418	32.1971	31.6242
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5771	1.6074	1.6290	1.6100
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	107.7809	105.9504	104.6070	101.6382
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	82.7752	80.8267	79.5967	76.0577
3) OITP	JAN97=100	134.1684	132.5562	131.1290	129.0183

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