Federal Reserve Statistical Release, H.10, Foreign Exchange Rates (Weekly); title with eagle logo links to Statistical Release home page
Release Date: November 9, 2009
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 H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY                               For immediate release                                                                                                                                                       
 FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES                                            November 9, 2009                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
COUNTRY MONETARY UNIT Nov. 2 Nov. 3 Nov. 4 Nov. 5 Nov. 6
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9083 0.8985 0.9087 0.9083 0.9164
BRAZIL REAL 1.7485 1.7530 1.7229 1.7222 1.7165
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0742 1.0701 1.0644 1.0649 1.0717
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8268 6.8278 6.8265 6.8269 6.8266
DENMARK KRONE 5.0185 5.0769 5.0155 5.0072 5.0162
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.4828 1.4658 1.4836 1.4857 1.4835
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7501 7.7501 7.7496 7.7495 7.7495
INDIA RUPEE 46.8100 47.3700 46.9400 46.9300 46.8300
JAPAN YEN 90.5600 90.3000 90.9600 90.4500 89.8600
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.4240 3.4290 3.4160 3.4200 3.4000
MEXICO PESO 13.0988 13.3150 13.2855 13.3318 13.3754
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7225 0.7178 0.7250 0.7189 0.7243
NORWAY KRONE 5.6982 5.7989 5.6865 5.6814 5.6958
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3965 1.4018 1.3958 1.3956 1.3928
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.8512 7.9160 7.6460 7.6000 7.5360
SOUTH KOREA WON 1181.0000 1188.1000 1172.7000 1174.8000 1167.6000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 114.7500 114.7800 114.7800 114.8000 114.8000
SWEDEN KRONA 6.9971 7.1360 7.0337 7.0082 7.0057
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0177 1.0306 1.0183 1.0170 1.0182
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.5000 32.5800 32.5100 32.4700 32.5100
THAILAND BAHT 33.4100 33.4600 33.3800 33.4000 33.3500
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.6410 1.6383 1.6571 1.6565 1.6586
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 2.1446 2.1446 2.1146 2.1446 2.1446
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
N = No data for this date                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

   Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR Nov. 2 Nov. 3 Nov. 4 Nov. 5 Nov. 6
1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.0096 102.4446 101.9235 101.8868 101.9069
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.9102 74.1762 73.6906 73.5863 73.6625
3)OITP JAN97=100 133.3344 133.9901 133.5008 133.5911 133.5077
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
   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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