Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: April 3, 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 MARCH 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 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 March 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7622 0.7664 0.7465 0.7504
BRAZIL REAL 3.1275 3.1057 3.1901 3.6980
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3387 1.3109 1.3183 1.3226
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8940 6.8694 6.8907 6.5027
DENMARK KRONE 6.9553 6.9810 6.9919 6.6986
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.0691 1.0650 1.0635 1.1134
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7658 7.7596 7.7560 7.7604
INDIA RUPEE 65.8009 66.9726 68.0474 66.8909
JAPAN YEN 112.9165 112.9116 114.8721 112.9317
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.4358 4.4401 4.4550 4.0644
MEXICO PESO 19.2800 20.3008 21.3911 17.6303
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7006 0.7229 0.7132 0.6745
NORWAY KRONE 8.5063 8.3215 8.4570 8.4754
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4049 1.4137 1.4276 1.3724
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 12.9203 13.1905 13.5446 15.3792
SOUTH KOREA WON 1133.8617 1140.4874 1179.1074 1181.5730
SRI LANKA RUPEE 151.5048 150.8721 149.8342 145.1335
SWEDEN KRONA 8.9147 8.9007 8.9451 8.3394
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0015 1.0010 1.0075 0.9811
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.6487 30.8547 31.6458 32.5874
THAILAND BAHT 34.8752 34.9989 35.4289 35.2117
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2347 1.2495 1.2367 1.4249
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 8.6912
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1) BROAD JAN97=100 125.2590 125.7806 127.6180 121.3586
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 94.4902 93.9727 94.6655 91.3889
3) OITP JAN97=100 157.9419 159.7498 162.9528 153.2229

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

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Last Update: April 03, 2017