Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: January 9, 2019
Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5 Monthly

Effective on February 4, 2019, the Federal Reserve Board staff will make major changes to the methodology used to construct the trade-weighted dollar indexes in the H.10, G.5, and G.5A releases. These changes will affect the calculation of index weights and country composition. The new dollar indexes will go back to (and be indexed to) January 2006. For more information, see "Revisions to the Federal Reserve Dollar Indexes" and "Technical Q&As".

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

The table below shows the average rates of exchange in DECEMBER 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 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 December 2017
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7169 0.7247 0.7111 0.7648
BRAZIL REAL 3.8834 3.7860 3.7611 3.2950
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3436 1.3205 1.3004 1.2769
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8837 6.9367 6.9191 6.5932
DENMARK KRONE 6.5579 6.5684 6.4939 6.2885
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1380 1.1364 1.1488 1.1836
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.8194 7.8286 7.8375 7.8128
INDIA RUPEE 70.8331 71.7380 73.5609 64.2445
JAPAN YEN 112.1994 113.3380 112.7218 112.9405
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.1688 4.1825 4.1570 4.0775
MEXICO PESO 20.0972 20.2448 19.1958 19.1765
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6819 0.6777 0.6537 0.6966
NORWAY KRONE 8.6263 8.4797 8.2545 8.3178
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3704 1.3748 1.3790 1.3462
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 14.2574 14.0901 14.4869 13.0918
SOUTH KOREA WON 1122.4244 1125.3450 1131.6150 1082.9020
SRI LANKA RUPEE 180.0794 176.7275 171.3614 153.1085
SWEDEN KRONA 9.0303 9.0676 9.0391 8.3925
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9919 1.0011 0.9940 0.9870
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.7822 30.8060 30.8823 29.9545
THAILAND BAHT 32.7078 32.9485 32.7636 32.6165
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2664 1.2900 1.3012 1.3404
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 349.3944 71.2345 63.1191 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 128.5202 128.2980 126.8761 119.9313
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 92.0486 91.6828 90.7738 88.7488
3) OITP JAN97=100 168.5486 168.5459 166.5284 153.4252

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: January 09, 2019