Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: September 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 AUGUST 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	August 2016	July 2016	June 2016	August 2015
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7629	0.7529	0.7401	0.7295
BRAZIL	REAL	3.2086	3.2781	3.4234	3.5154
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.2998	1.3052	1.2894	1.3147
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.6466	6.6771	6.5892	6.3383
DENMARK	KRONE	6.6396	6.7293	6.6210	6.7035
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.1207	1.1055	1.1232	1.1136
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7560	7.7568	7.7620	7.7530
INDIA	RUPEE	66.9035	67.1580	67.2655	65.0971
JAPAN	YEN	101.2383	104.1910	105.3509	123.0038
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.0219	4.0151	4.0772	4.0623
MEXICO	PESO	18.4742	18.6155	18.6538	16.5340
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7235	0.7132	0.7041	0.6549
NORWAY	KRONE	8.3009	8.4795	8.3064	8.2524
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.3476	1.3513	1.3533	1.3981
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	13.7828	14.3930	15.0500	12.9012
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1110.0183	1140.8650	1165.2023	1178.1438
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	145.2035	145.4010	145.8609	133.8519
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.4693	8.5722	8.3043	8.5515
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9711	0.9830	0.9695	0.9685
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	31.5374	32.1010	32.3000	32.1914
THAILAND	BAHT	34.7122	35.0410	35.2668	35.3938
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.3101	1.3134	1.4197	1.5578
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	9.9750	9.9750	9.9750	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	120.8155	121.9330	121.1508	119.4261
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	89.8283	90.8889	89.5654	91.9344
3) OITP	JAN97=100	154.1025	155.2340	155.1899	148.4371

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