H.10 WEEKLY UPDATE: WEB RELEASE ONLY For immediate release FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES October 18, 2010 (Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted) MONETARY COUNTRY UNIT Oct. 11 Oct. 12 Oct. 13 Oct. 14 Oct. 15 *AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9848 0.9922 0.9943 0.9883 BRAZIL REAL 1.6697 1.6574 1.6633 1.6576 CANADA DOLLAR 1.0111 1.0028 1.0036 1.0108 CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.6733 6.6634 6.6505 6.6397 DENMARK KRONE 5.3852 5.3399 5.2997 5.3268 *EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3846 1.3964 1.4066 1.3998 HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7586 7.7599 7.7578 7.7573 INDIA RUPEE 44.5500 44.3500 44.0500 44.1500 JAPAN YEN 81.7400 81.8100 81.4400 81.3200 MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.1070 3.0915 3.0820 3.0820 MEXICO PESO 12.4285 12.3705 12.4156 12.4150 *NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7536 0.7625 0.7584 0.7558 NORWAY KRONE 5.8764 5.7990 5.7426 5.7939 SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3060 1.3027 1.2972 1.2961 SOUTH AFRICA RAND 6.8710 6.8100 6.7900 6.8125 SOUTH KOREA WON 1130.1500 1119.0000 1110.4000 1109.6000 SRI LANKA RUPEE 111.6000 111.7000 111.7000 111.7500 SWEDEN KRONA 6.6960 6.6343 6.5580 6.6209 SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9593 0.9588 0.9530 0.9562 TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.9800 30.8400 30.6600 30.6600 THAILAND BAHT 29.9400 29.8300 29.7900 29.7900 *UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5799 1.5843 1.5992 1.6027 VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 MEMO: UNITED STATES DOLLAR 1)BROAD JAN97=100 98.8968 98.4329 98.1511 98.3078 2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 72.2811 71.8430 71.5233 71.8063 3)OITP JAN97=100 127.9505 127.5166 127.3437 127.2627 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