Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

Current Release

Release Date: March 1, 2017

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 FEBRUARY 2017 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	February 2017	January 2017	December 2016	February 2016
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	0.7664	0.7465	0.7346	0.7134
BRAZIL	REAL	3.1057	3.1901	3.3540	3.9644
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.3109	1.3183	1.3339	1.3797
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.8694	6.8907	6.9198	6.5501
DENMARK	KRONE	6.9810	6.9919	7.0524	6.7287
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.0650	1.0635	1.0545	1.1092
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7596	7.7560	7.7586	7.7829
INDIA	RUPEE	66.9726	68.0474	67.8052	68.2395
JAPAN	YEN	112.9116	114.8721	115.9981	114.6155
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	4.4401	4.4550	4.4573	4.1780
MEXICO	PESO	20.3008	21.3911	20.4992	18.4332
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7229	0.7132	0.7039	0.6633
NORWAY	KRONE	8.3215	8.4570	8.5617	8.6127
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.4137	1.4276	1.4358	1.4052
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	13.1905	13.5446	13.8377	15.7622
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1140.4874	1179.1074	1183.0700	1216.2285
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	150.8721	149.8342	148.8152	143.6390
SWEDEN	KRONA	8.9007	8.9451	9.2070	8.4804
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	1.0010	1.0075	1.0194	0.9920
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.8547	31.6458	32.0005	33.2385
THAILAND	BAHT	34.9989	35.4289	35.7776	35.5955
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.2495	1.2367	1.2483	1.4290
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	9.9750	9.9750	9.9750	6.2842
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	125.7805	127.6180	127.7405	123.8474
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	93.9727	94.6655	95.4259	92.9841
3) OITP	JAN97=100	159.7497	162.9528	162.2527	156.7184

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