Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: February 21, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Feb. 13	Feb. 14	Feb. 15	Feb. 16	Feb. 17
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0741	1.0691	1.0742	1.0759	1.0695
BRAZIL	REAL	1.7202	1.7159	1.7173	1.7221	1.7135
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9995	0.9988	0.9965	0.9962	0.9970
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.2972	6.2995	6.2998	6.3014	6.2985
DENMARK	KRONE	5.6247	5.6530	5.6791	5.6699	5.6529
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3211	1.3149	1.3087	1.3110	1.3149
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7535	7.7544	7.7532	7.7538	7.7535
INDIA	RUPEE	49.1400	49.4000	49.3500	49.4300	49.3100
JAPAN	YEN	77.5200	78.3900	78.2200	78.7700	79.3300
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0245	3.0445	3.0340	3.0570	3.0420
MEXICO	PESO	12.7206	12.7618	12.7556	12.8560	12.8138
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8349	0.8321	0.8382	0.8335	0.8327
NORWAY	KRONE	5.7073	5.7295	5.7699	5.7543	5.6929
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2551	1.2646	1.2609	1.2625	1.2591
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.6958	7.7165	7.6966	7.7837	7.7485
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1119.9500	1126.5500	1124.6500	1128.6500	1126.2500
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	116.8000	120.0000	119.2000	118.8000	118.1000
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.6480	6.6843	6.7058	6.7327	6.7182
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9149	0.9185	0.9223	0.9209	0.9180
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.4700	29.5600	29.5100	29.5500	29.5600
THAILAND	BAHT	30.7200	30.8300	30.7700	30.8200	30.8100
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5780	1.5691	1.5710	1.5795	1.5813
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	98.0297	98.3597	98.3523	98.5082	98.4167
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	72.2669	72.5776	72.6246	72.6271	72.6497
3) OITP	JAN97=100	125.8307	126.1592	126.0757	126.4344	126.1899

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
= 15.6466 ESTONIAN KROON
= 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