H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES August 23, 2010 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Aug. 16 Aug. 17 Aug. 18 Aug. 19 Aug. 20 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.8976 0.9067 0.8995 0.8928 0.8881 BRAZIL REAL 1.7580 1.7513 1.7513 1.7626 1.7615 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0429 1.0311 1.0286 1.0397 1.0499 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.8038 6.7920 6.7911 6.7897 6.7900 DENMARK KRONE 5.8011 5.7785 5.7860 5.8043 5.8730 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.2838 1.2890 1.2872 1.2837 1.2687 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7723 7.7699 7.7691 7.7697 7.7759 INDIA RUPEE 46.6800 46.6000 46.5400 46.3500 45.7000 JAPAN YEN 85.3300 85.5100 85.3100 85.2700 85.6300 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1800 3.1548 3.1430 3.1298 3.1408 MEXICO PESO 12.6533 12.5833 12.5975 12.7310 12.7705 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7086 0.7144 0.7159 0.7071 0.7025 NORWAY KRONE 6.1458 6.1300 6.1528 6.1745 6.2542 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3612 1.3528 1.3489 1.3545 1.3583 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 7.2650 7.2540 7.2539 7.2870 7.3325 SOUTH KOREA WON 1186.9000 1176.0000 1174.0000 1172.1500 1183.2000 SRI LANKA RUPEE 112.4000 112.3500 112.4000 112.3500 112.2500 SWEDEN KRONA 7.3583 7.3120 7.3380 7.3777 7.4316 SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.0378 1.0434 1.0404 1.0310 1.0372 TAIWAN DOLLAR 31.9200 31.8600 31.8500 31.8900 31.9200 THAILAND BAHT 31.7900 31.7200 31.5900 31.5400 31.5200 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5679 1.5586 1.5619 1.5612 1.5515 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2983 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 102.7500 102.3543 102.2884 102.6301 103.1506 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 76.1176 75.7931 75.7468 76.0666 76.7514 3)OITP JAN97=100 131.2454 130.7913 130.7030 131.0307 131.2089 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 2010 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