Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: February 1, 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 JANUARY 2018 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 2018 December 2017 November 2017 January 2017
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7956 0.7648 0.7620 0.7465
BRAZIL REAL 3.2115 3.2950 3.2629 3.1901
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2429 1.2769 1.2773 1.3183
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.4233 6.5932 6.6200 6.8907
DENMARK KRONE 6.1056 6.2885 6.3376 6.9919
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2197 1.1836 1.1743 1.0635
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8190 7.8128 7.8052 7.7560
INDIA RUPEE 63.6452 64.2445 64.8435 68.0474
JAPAN YEN 110.8710 112.9405 112.8190 114.8721
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.9517 4.0775 4.1690 4.4550
MEXICO PESO 18.9118 19.1765 18.9306 21.3911
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7263 0.6966 0.6886 0.7132
NORWAY KRONE 7.9039 8.3178 8.1946 8.4570
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3214 1.3462 1.3556 1.4276
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 12.1951 13.0918 14.0428 13.5446
SOUTH KOREA WON 1065.6410 1082.9020 1099.7945 1179.1074
SRI LANKA RUPEE 153.7452 153.1085 153.5925 149.8342
SWEDEN KRONA 8.0480 8.3925 8.3893 8.9451
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9604 0.9870 0.9915 1.0075
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.4005 29.9545 30.0835 31.6458
THAILAND BAHT 31.8700 32.6165 32.8905 35.4289
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3824 1.3404 1.3217 1.2367
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1) BROAD JAN97=100 117.2182 119.9565 120.2745 127.3877
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 86.3234 88.7488 89.1571 94.5537
3) OITP JAN97=100 150.5057 153.4821 153.6610 162.5873

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: February 01, 2018