Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Weekly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: February 2, 2009
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 H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY                               For immediate release                                                                                                                                                       
 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                            February 2, 2009                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT Jan. 26 Jan. 27 Jan. 28 Jan. 29 Jan. 30
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.6610 0.6602 0.6699 0.6550 0.6380
BRAZIL REAL 2.3123 2.3183 2.2890 2.2871 2.3130
CANADA DOLLAR 1.2200 1.2292 1.2096 1.2187 1.2365
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8392 6.8392 6.8392 6.8392 6.8392
DENMARK KRONE 5.6651 5.6645 5.6238 5.7369 5.8216
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3123 1.3159 1.3244 1.2988 1.2804
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7567 7.7598 7.7581 7.7564 7.7544
INDIA RUPEE 48.5000 48.8500 48.8100 48.4900 48.8300
JAPAN YEN 89.2500 88.9900 88.8700 89.7700 89.8300
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.6230 3.6230 3.5850 3.5970 3.6050
MEXICO PESO 13.9480 14.1850 14.1220 14.2021 14.3330
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.5306 0.5284 0.5345 0.5161 0.5084
NORWAY KRONE 6.7180 6.7894 6.6827 6.8038 6.9158
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4993 1.5072 1.4988 1.5068 1.5106
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 10.1210 9.9750 9.9025 9.9720 10.2000
SOUTH KOREA WON 1390.8000 1390.0000 1369.0000 1369.0000 1380.0000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 113.8000 113.8000 113.8200 113.8800 113.8200
SWEDEN KRONA 7.9832 8.0804 7.9540 8.1204 8.3647
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1437 1.1388 1.1442 1.1507 1.1612
TAIWAN DOLLAR 33.6800 33.6800 33.6800 33.6600 33.7000
THAILAND BAHT 34.8700 34.8600 34.8700 34.8800 34.9400
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.3960 1.4148 1.4317 1.4262 1.4413
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR Jan. 26 Jan. 27 Jan. 28 Jan. 29 Jan. 30
1)BROAD JAN97=100 109.6026 109.8182 109.1726 109.9910 110.7952
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 81.3195 81.3040 80.5713 81.5721 82.3971
3)OITP JAN97=100 140.2925 140.8729 140.4891 140.8512 141.4863
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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 currencie                                                                                                                                          
   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


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