Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Release Date: October 11, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
COUNTRY CURRENCY Oct. 3 Oct. 4 Oct. 5 Oct. 6 Oct. 7
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.9647 0.9453 0.9624 0.9699 0.9843
BRAZIL REAL 1.8815 1.8810 1.8356 1.8081 1.7662
CANADA DOLLAR 1.0440 1.0605 1.0448 1.0431 1.0326
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 6.3745 6.3745 6.3745 6.3780 6.3745
DENMARK KRONE 5.6034 5.5989 5.5846 5.5518 5.5093
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 1.3281 1.3294 1.3328 1.3408 1.3512
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7884 7.7845 7.7833 7.7815 7.7817
INDIA RUPEE 49.0900 49.3000 49.2400 49.1800 48.8900
JAPAN YEN 76.6600 76.8600 76.8600 76.6400 76.7700
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.2090 3.1960 3.1890 3.1770 3.1560
MEXICO PESO 13.8767 13.9310 13.6701 13.5291 13.3016
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.7624 0.7538 0.7628 0.7679 0.7765
NORWAY KRONE 5.8581 5.9111 5.8818 5.8514 5.7828
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.3104 1.3135 1.3038 1.3008 1.2903
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.1930 8.2890 8.0230 7.9687 7.8688
SOUTH KOREA WON 1180.0000 1197.5000 1186.5000 1184.0000 1170.5000
SRI LANKA RUPEE 110.2000 110.1500 110.1800 110.1500 110.1500
SWEDEN KRONA 6.8541 6.9050 6.8783 6.8398 6.7451
SWITZERLAND FRANC 0.9151 0.9223 0.9228 0.9219 0.9151
TAIWAN DOLLAR 30.6200 30.6700 30.6200 30.6000 30.4700
THAILAND BAHT 31.1100 31.2400 31.1700 31.0200 30.8700
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.5474 1.5403 1.5436 1.5398 1.5628
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893 4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR  
1) BROAD JAN97=100 100.8217 101.2549 100.6024 100.2541 99.5472
2) MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 73.3066 73.7570 73.3092 73.0646 72.5067
3) OITP JAN97=100 130.8704 131.2370 130.3517 129.8870 129.0328
N = No data for this date.

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
Last update: October 11, 2011