Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: February 2, 2015

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 JANUARY 2015 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	January 2015	December 2014	November 2014	January 2014
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.8064	0.8257	0.8644	0.8858
BRAZIL	REAL	2.6346	2.6419	2.5527	2.3858
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.2122	1.1532	1.1325	1.0940
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.2181	6.1886	6.1249	6.0509
DENMARK	KRONE	6.4083	6.0351	5.9660	5.4787
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.1615	1.2329	1.2473	1.3618
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7531	7.7541	7.7543	7.7578
INDIA	RUPEE	62.1300	62.7071	61.6828	62.1057
JAPAN	YEN	118.2500	119.3233	116.2994	103.7614
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.5847	3.4768	3.3454	3.3028
MEXICO	PESO	14.6972	14.5205	13.6148	13.2220
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7628	0.7766	0.7834	0.8275
NORWAY	KRONE	7.6865	7.2772	6.8090	6.1622
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3378	1.3150	1.2964	1.2726
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	11.5527	11.4975	11.0901	10.8872
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1088.1300	1102.6224	1097.8728	1067.1267
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	131.6075	131.0786	130.9278	130.6857
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.1131	7.6289	7.4155	6.4862
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9443	0.9753	0.9642	0.9038
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	31.6385	31.3519	30.7278	30.1357
THAILAND	BAHT	32.7280	32.8876	32.7878	32.9262
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5142	1.5644	1.5771	1.6470
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	112.6855	110.4210	107.7809	102.7808
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	87.3799	84.2128	82.7752	77.1141
3) OITP	JAN97=100	139.2653	138.1804	134.1684	130.2125

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