H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES January 12, 2009 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Jan. 5 Jan. 6 Jan. 7 Jan. 8 Jan. 9 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.7146 0.7187 0.7212 0.7071 0.7063 BRAZIL REAL 2.2640 2.1895 2.2209 2.2650 2.2888 CANADA DOLLAR 1.1920 1.1822 1.1850 1.1890 1.1920 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8300 6.8360 6.8330 6.8342 6.8350 DENMARK KRONE 5.4845 5.5426 5.4311 5.4343 5.5240 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3576 1.3445 1.3718 1.3714 1.3495 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7525 7.7534 7.7511 7.7551 7.7572 INDIA RUPEE 48.5000 48.5000 48.5600 48.4500 48.2600 JAPAN YEN 93.2000 94.2000 92.7000 91.1500 90.2500 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4950 3.5070 3.4980 3.5380 3.5390 MEXICO PESO 13.5225 13.3300 13.3955 13.4950 13.7080 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5880 0.5945 0.6006 0.5929 0.5933 NORWAY KRONE 6.9639 6.9918 6.8510 6.9770 6.9949 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4730 1.4750 1.4707 1.4780 1.4843 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 9.2900 9.3425 9.4575 9.6470 9.7850 SOUTH KOREA WON 1313.5000 1307.0000 1292.3000 1328.2500 1347.5000 SRI LANKA RUPEE 113.5500 113.6000 113.7300 113.7300 113.7000 SWEDEN KRONA 7.9217 7.8715 7.7658 7.8404 7.9293 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1077 1.1212 1.0941 1.0925 1.1096 TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.0000 33.1000 33.0300 33.1000 33.1400 THAILAND BAHT 34.9800 34.9800 34.8200 34.8000 34.8200 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4602 1.4777 1.5254 1.5190 1.5239 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 107.6424 107.5562 106.8417 107.0685 107.5839 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 79.8822 80.0208 78.9856 78.9101 79.2965 3)OITP JAN97=100 137.7539 137.2942 137.2542 137.9709 138.6237 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 of the currency weights and dollar indexes took effect with the January 2, 2007 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 L.P. * 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. The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-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 = 13.7603 AUSTRIAN SCHILLINGS = 40.3399 BELGIAN FRANCS = 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS = 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS = 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS = .787564 IRISH POUNDS = 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE = 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS = 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS = 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS = 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR