Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: September 1, 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 AUGUST 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 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 August 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7915 0.7807 0.7562 0.7629
BRAZIL REAL 3.1478 3.1994 3.2954 3.2086
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2608 1.2690 1.3295 1.2998
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.6670 6.7694 6.8066 6.6466
DENMARK KRONE 6.2966 6.4501 6.6203 6.6396
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1813 1.1530 1.1233 1.1207
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8217 7.8091 7.7984 7.7560
INDIA RUPEE 63.9683 64.4240 64.4482 66.9035
JAPAN YEN 109.8270 112.4170 110.9141 101.2383
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.2820 4.2875 4.2760 4.0219
MEXICO PESO 17.7969 17.8081 18.1293 18.4742
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7303 0.7358 0.7233 0.7235
NORWAY KRONE 7.8885 8.1473 8.4594 8.3009
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3608 1.3707 1.3834 1.3476
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.2149 13.1504 12.8924 13.7828
SOUTH KOREA WON 1130.2700 1131.7460 1130.8464 1110.0183
SRI LANKA RUPEE 153.0978 153.5875 152.8082 145.2035
SWEDEN KRONA 8.0835 8.3129 8.6779 8.4693
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9653 0.9604 0.9681 0.9711
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.2330 30.3920 30.2595 31.5374
THAILAND BAHT 33.2470 33.7090 33.9891 34.7122
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2952 1.2996 1.2810 1.3101
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 119.2846 120.6673 122.2663 120.8472
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 88.1905 89.6071 91.7671 89.8449
3) OITP JAN97=100 152.6903 153.9524 154.7535 154.0481

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 01, 2017