Foreign Exchange Rates - G.5

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Release Date: June 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 MAY 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 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 May 2016
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7437 0.7534 0.7622 0.7318
BRAZIL REAL 3.2043 3.1390 3.1275 3.5403
CANADA DOLLAR 1.3606 1.3437 1.3387 1.2945
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8843 6.8876 6.8940 6.5259
DENMARK KRONE 6.7338 6.9422 6.9553 6.5762
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.1050 1.0714 1.0691 1.1312
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7864 7.7737 7.7658 7.7635
INDIA RUPEE 64.4195 64.5360 65.8009 66.8895
JAPAN YEN 112.2436 110.0910 112.9165 108.8481
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 4.3164 4.4030 4.4358 4.0375
MEXICO PESO 18.7666 18.7672 19.2800 18.1360
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.6946 0.6969 0.7006 0.6807
NORWAY KRONE 8.5059 8.5855 8.5063 8.2269
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3951 1.3983 1.4049 1.3695
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 13.2640 13.4508 12.9203 15.3257
SOUTH KOREA WON 1125.1359 1134.1755 1133.8617 1173.7905
SRI LANKA RUPEE 152.3909 151.8620 151.5048 145.9081
SWEDEN KRONA 8.7826 8.9616 8.9147 8.2154
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9867 1.0009 1.0015 0.9777
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.1282 30.3585 30.6487 32.5390
THAILAND BAHT 34.4573 34.4495 34.8752 35.4076
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.2929 1.2639 1.2347 1.4524
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750 9.9750
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 123.8299 124.3486 125.2587 120.6839
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 93.1701 94.0015 94.4902 89.6563
3) OITP JAN97=100 156.4447 156.5471 157.9412 153.9248

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, 2017