Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: April 1, 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 MARCH 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	March 2015	February 2015	January 2015	March 2014
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7724	0.7797	0.8064	0.9089
BRAZIL	REAL	3.1414	2.8170	2.6346	2.3251
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.2618	1.2499	1.2122	1.1107
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.2386	6.2518	6.2181	6.1729
DENMARK	KRONE	6.8954	6.5636	6.4083	5.3975
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.0819	1.1350	1.1615	1.3828
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7584	7.7551	7.7531	7.7612
INDIA	RUPEE	62.4805	61.9905	62.1300	60.9476
JAPAN	YEN	120.3945	118.7600	118.2500	102.3395
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.6793	3.5972	3.5847	3.2801
MEXICO	PESO	15.2375	14.9170	14.6972	13.1929
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7460	0.7454	0.7628	0.8539
NORWAY	KRONE	7.9952	7.5861	7.6865	5.9955
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3770	1.3549	1.3378	1.2672
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	12.0884	11.5773	11.5527	10.7445
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1112.9005	1101.4605	1088.1300	1070.4910
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	132.9500	132.7221	131.6075	130.5857
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.5448	8.3537	8.1131	6.4114
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9798	0.9361	0.9443	0.8805
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	31.4382	31.5537	31.6385	30.3995
THAILAND	BAHT	32.6245	32.5595	32.7280	32.3619
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.4958	1.5329	1.5142	1.6624
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	116.2880	114.2359	112.6858	102.9517
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	91.6688	89.1434	87.3799	76.6305
3) OITP	JAN97=100	141.9458	140.5068	139.2661	131.2118

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