Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: December 12, 2011

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Dec. 5	Dec. 6	Dec. 7	Dec. 8	Dec. 9
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0298	1.0227	1.0268	1.0187	1.0190
BRAZIL	REAL	1.7841	1.7940	1.7908	1.8137	1.8072
CANADA	DOLLAR	1.0140	1.0116	1.0106	1.0190	1.0202
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3629	6.3645	6.3642	6.3618	6.3641
DENMARK	KRONE	5.5229	5.5497	5.5539	5.5802	5.5614
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3463	1.3397	1.3386	1.3324	1.3368
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7695	7.7723	7.7726	7.7757	7.7817
INDIA	RUPEE	51.3100	51.2300	51.6200	51.7000	51.8700
JAPAN	YEN	77.7700	77.7300	77.6900	77.6700	77.5800
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.1325	3.1345	3.1220	3.1310	3.1510
MEXICO	PESO	13.4890	13.5000	13.5107	13.6807	13.6128
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.7814	0.7777	0.7778	0.7730	0.7733
NORWAY	KRONE	5.7428	5.7605	5.7585	5.7890	5.7473
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2777	1.2836	1.2855	1.2943	1.2931
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.9923	8.0275	8.0250	8.2650	8.1225
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1124.5000	1128.5000	1129.0500	1133.5500	1146.6000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	113.8500	113.7200	113.7600	113.8500	113.7200
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.7128	6.7474	6.7405	6.7980	6.7379
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9179	0.9267	0.9251	0.9275	0.9243
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	30.1300	30.2200	30.1500	30.1600	30.2100
THAILAND	BAHT	30.7500	30.8400	30.7500	30.7700	30.9000
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5689	1.5580	1.5691	1.5635	1.5642
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	99.3680	99.5444	99.4984	99.9269	99.8887
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	72.2606	72.4209	72.3597	72.7130	72.6113
3) OITP	JAN97=100	128.9673	129.1500	129.1305	129.6264	129.6835

ND = 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