Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: June 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 MAY 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 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 May 2017
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7525 0.7684 0.7759 0.7437
BRAZIL REAL 3.6316 3.4089 3.2790 3.2043
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2866 1.2732 1.2933 1.3606
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3701 6.2967 6.3174 6.8843
DENMARK KRONE 6.3001 6.0705 6.0403 6.7338
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1823 1.2270 1.2334 1.1050
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8487 7.8482 7.8413 7.7864
INDIA RUPEE 67.5100 65.6729 65.0455 64.4195
JAPAN YEN 109.6882 107.6562 106.0468 112.2436
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.9586 3.8855 3.9013 4.3164
MEXICO PESO 19.5525 18.3876 18.5901 18.7666
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6953 0.7244 0.7258 0.6946
NORWAY KRONE 8.0963 7.8471 7.7702 8.5059
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3392 1.3160 1.3146 1.3951
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 12.5394 12.1067 11.8422 13.2640
SOUTH KOREA WON 1076.6595 1068.0452 1069.9418 1125.1359
SRI LANKA RUPEE 157.7527 156.1857 155.6386 152.3909
SWEDEN KRONA 8.7555 8.4596 8.2406 8.7826
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9969 0.9687 0.9480 0.9867
TAIWAN DOLLAR 29.8673 29.3767 29.1991 30.1282
THAILAND BAHT 31.9641 31.3086 31.2564 34.4573
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3470 1.4079 1.3976 1.2929
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 72987.528 56813.562 41273.262 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 121.4559 118.1733 118.1150 123.6594
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 88.6914 86.3533 86.2478 93.1476
3) OITP JAN97=100 156.9528 152.6318 152.6409 156.0711

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: June 01, 2018