H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES May 17, 2010 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT May. 10 May. 11 May. 12 May. 13 May. 14 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9016 0.8990 0.8926 0.8998 0.8886 BRAZIL REAL 1.7783 1.7764 1.7734 1.7721 1.8035 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0245 1.0193 1.0197 1.0148 1.0343 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8263 6.8285 6.8270 6.8278 6.8263 DENMARK KRONE 5.7863 5.8527 5.8853 5.9185 6.0026 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2861 1.2715 1.2642 1.2568 1.2390 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7795 7.7795 7.7813 7.7813 7.7822 INDIA RUPEE 44.8400 45.1000 45.0800 45.0000 45.2000 JAPAN YEN 93.3900 92.8300 92.9300 92.7000 91.9400 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1980 3.2080 3.2060 3.1860 3.1900 MEXICO PESO 12.5125 12.5025 12.4381 12.3580 12.5820 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7221 0.7208 0.7134 0.7176 0.7113 NORWAY KRONE 6.1278 6.1550 6.1464 6.1781 6.2365 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3804 1.3808 1.3800 1.3813 1.3868 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.4777 7.5350 7.4935 7.4740 7.5524 SOUTH KOREA WON 1131.8000 1133.7500 1144.0200 1129.2000 1130.0000 SRI LANKA RUPEE 113.6300 113.6500 113.6500 113.6000 113.6500 SWEDEN KRONA 7.4981 7.5814 7.5594 7.6020 7.7468 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.1069 1.1059 1.1101 1.1146 1.1304 TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.5600 31.6400 31.6600 31.6400 31.7800 THAILAND BAHT 32.2600 32.3000 32.2800 32.3500 32.3500 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4980 1.4952 1.4855 1.4659 1.4557 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 104.1064 104.2423 104.3636 104.3075 105.1741 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 78.0021 78.1614 78.4126 78.5245 79.4172 3)OITP JAN97=100 131.7413 131.8212 131.7189 131.4032 132.1148 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 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 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 = .585274 CYPRUS POUND = 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS = 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS = 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS = 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS = .787564 IRISH POUNDS = 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE = 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS = .429300 MALTESE LIRA = 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS = 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS = 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS = 30.1260 SLOVAKIAN KORUNA = 239.640 SLOVENIAN TOLAR