Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Weekly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: October 13, 2009
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 H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY                               For immediate release                                                                                                                                                       
 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                            October 13, 2009                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT Oct. 5 Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 9
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8772 0.8912 0.8878 0.9072 0.9034
BRAZIL REAL 1.7702 1.7493 1.7613 1.7450 1.7395
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0755 1.0570 1.0619 1.0533 1.0425
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8260 6.8260 6.8260 6.8260 6.8248
DENMARK KRONE 5.0819 5.0488 5.0721 5.0372 5.0578
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4647 1.4744 1.4675 1.4777 1.4715
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7501 7.7500 7.7496 7.7496 7.7495
INDIA RUPEE 47.3900 46.7900 46.5800 46.2000 46.4400
JAPAN YEN 89.5600 88.7700 88.7600 88.4400 89.6900
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4580 3.4335 3.4150 3.3885 3.3965
MEXICO PESO 13.6620 13.4890 13.4675 13.3200 13.2620
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7260 0.7365 0.7329 0.7438 0.7323
NORWAY KRONE 5.7558 5.6758 5.7048 5.6444 5.6469
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.4105 1.4000 1.4010 1.3898 1.3927
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.5686 7.4090 7.4540 7.3400 7.3867
SOUTH KOREA WON 1165.2500 1166.0000 1167.0000 1166.2500 1164.3000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.7800 114.8000 114.8000 114.7800 114.7900
SWEDEN KRONA 7.0424 6.9284 7.0324 6.9569 7.0129
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0322 1.0248 1.0333 1.0270 1.0316
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.1500 32.1000 32.0400 32.0800 32.2600
THAILAND BAHT 33.4300 33.3200 33.3600 33.3000 33.3000
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5926 1.5904 1.5899 1.6090 1.5896
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR Oct. 5 Oct. 6 Oct. 7 Oct. 8 Oct. 9
1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.8249 102.0685 102.2395 101.6542 101.7554
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 74.4136 73.6701 73.9455 73.3885 73.5538
3)OITP JAN97=100 134.5547 133.9137 133.8675 133.3391 133.3078
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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