Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: February 1, 2016

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 2016 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 2016	December 2015	November 2015	January 2015
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7011	0.7247	0.7146	0.8064
BRAZIL	REAL	4.0556	3.8808	3.7858	2.6346
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.4208	1.3713	1.3279	1.2122
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.5726	6.4491	6.3640	6.2181
DENMARK	KRONE	6.8743	6.8530	6.9555	6.4083
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.0855	1.0889	1.0727	1.1615
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7812	7.7507	7.7506	7.7531
INDIA	RUPEE	67.3332	66.5023	66.1000	62.1300
JAPAN	YEN	118.2258	121.6350	122.6432	118.2500
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.3388	4.2791	4.3131	3.5847
MEXICO	PESO	18.0648	17.0696	16.6306	14.6972
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.6534	0.6748	0.6554	0.7628
NORWAY	KRONE	8.8194	8.6971	8.6394	7.6865
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.4325	1.4081	1.4143	1.3378
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	16.3250	15.0024	14.1449	11.5527
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1203.3179	1169.9464	1153.4721	1088.1300
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	143.5505	143.3350	141.9637	131.6075
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.5483	8.4938	8.6829	8.1131
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	1.0082	0.9951	1.0098	0.9443
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	33.4332	32.7905	32.6084	31.6385
THAILAND	BAHT	36.1226	35.9936	35.7784	32.7280
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.4392	1.4981	1.5194	1.5142
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	125.1503	122.3758	121.0840	112.7741
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	95.2895	94.1403	93.9403	87.5393
3) OITP	JAN97=100	156.8205	152.1708	149.6108	139.2933

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