Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: January 2, 2018
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 DECEMBER 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 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 December 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7648 0.7620 0.7788 0.7346
BRAZIL REAL 3.2950 3.2629 3.1923 3.3540
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2769 1.2773 1.2607 1.3339
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.5932 6.6200 6.6254 6.9198
DENMARK KRONE 6.2885 6.3376 6.3318 7.0524
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1836 1.1743 1.1755 1.0545
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8128 7.8052 7.8053 7.7586
INDIA RUPEE 64.2445 64.8435 65.0357 67.8052
JAPAN YEN 112.9405 112.8190 112.9148 115.9981
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.0775 4.1690 4.2280 4.4573
MEXICO PESO 19.1765 18.9306 18.8215 20.4992
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6966 0.6886 0.7041 0.7039
NORWAY KRONE 8.3178 8.1946 7.9970 8.5617
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3462 1.3556 1.3595 1.4358
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.0918 14.0428 13.6975 13.8377
SOUTH KOREA WON 1082.9020 1099.7945 1130.8838 1183.0700
SRI LANKA RUPEE 153.1085 153.5925 153.4905 148.8152
SWEDEN KRONA 8.3925 8.3893 8.1776 9.2070
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9870 0.9915 0.9821 1.0194
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.9545 30.0835 30.2519 32.0005
THAILAND BAHT 32.6165 32.8905 33.2186 35.7776
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3404 1.3217 1.3202 1.2483
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1) BROAD JAN97=100 119.9564 120.2745 120.0495 127.5567
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 88.7488 89.1571 88.6866 95.3919
3) OITP JAN97=100 153.4818 153.6610 153.7731 161.8776

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 of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect as of the November 13, 2017 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: January 02, 2018