Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: September 4, 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 AUGUST 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 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 August 2017
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7325 0.7403 0.7498 0.7915
BRAZIL REAL 3.9333 3.8221 3.7710 3.1478
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3042 1.3133 1.3125 1.2608
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8453 6.7164 6.4651 6.6670
DENMARK KRONE 6.4574 6.3768 6.3785 6.2966
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1547 1.1685 1.1679 1.1813
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8492 7.8477 7.8471 7.8217
INDIA RUPEE 69.6317 68.6867 67.7900 63.9683
JAPAN YEN 110.9965 111.5210 110.0638 109.8270
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.0917 4.0479 3.9973 4.2820
MEXICO PESO 18.8633 18.9856 20.2878 17.7969
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6669 0.6789 0.6942 0.7303
NORWAY KRONE 8.3398 8.1307 8.1104 7.8885
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3687 1.3630 1.3480 1.3608
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 14.0916 13.3670 13.3138 13.2149
SOUTH KOREA WON 1120.4270 1122.2029 1094.3552 1130.2700
SRI LANKA RUPEE 160.3217 159.3548 158.9619 153.0978
SWEDEN KRONA 9.0690 8.8239 8.8010 8.0835
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9880 0.9948 0.9900 0.9653
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.7039 30.5429 30.0848 30.2330
THAILAND BAHT 33.0130 33.2681 32.4867 33.2470
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2878 1.3162 1.3294 1.2952
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2495016.2 129228.50 83600.000 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 125.3340 124.0589 123.4234 119.0332
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 90.4367 90.0469 89.7394 88.1570
3) OITP JAN97=100 163.4462 161.0552 160.0210 152.1802

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: September 04, 2018