Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: December 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 NOVEMBER 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	November 2015	October 2015	September 2015	November 2014
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7146	0.7200	0.7059	0.8644
BRAZIL	REAL	3.7858	3.8752	3.9032	2.5527
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3279	1.3072	1.3266	1.1325
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3640	6.3505	6.3676	6.1249
DENMARK	KRONE	6.9555	6.6453	6.6447	5.9660
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.0727	1.1228	1.1229	1.2473
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7506	7.7499	7.7501	7.7543
INDIA	RUPEE	66.1000	65.0262	66.1667	61.6828
JAPAN	YEN	122.6432	120.0481	120.1476	116.2994
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.3131	4.2557	4.3076	3.3454
MEXICO	PESO	16.6306	16.5697	16.8387	13.6148
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.6554	0.6693	0.6339	0.7834
NORWAY	KRONE	8.6394	8.2700	8.2845	6.8090
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.4143	1.4005	1.4148	1.2964
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	14.1449	13.4928	13.6388	11.0901
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1153.4721	1143.1990	1184.3300	1097.8728
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	141.9637	140.8510	139.2329	130.9278
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.6829	8.3314	8.3659	7.4155
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	1.0098	0.9687	0.9725	0.9642
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	32.6084	32.4367	32.6695	30.7278
THAILAND	BAHT	35.7784	35.6790	36.0114	32.7878
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5194	1.5343	1.5338	1.5771
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	121.1082	119.2433	120.3733	107.7491
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	93.9745	91.2225	91.7534	82.7720
3) OITP	JAN97=100	149.6220	148.8914	150.7090	134.1216

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