Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: April 2, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Mar. 26	Mar. 27	Mar. 28	Mar. 29	Mar. 30
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0511	1.0490	1.0369	1.0326	1.0367
BRAZIL	REAL	1.8155	1.8112	1.8253	1.8332	1.8205
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9922	0.9928	0.9983	0.9998	0.9990
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.3139	6.3061	6.3044	6.3057	6.2975
DENMARK	KRONE	5.5783	5.5740	5.5916	5.6066	5.5790
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3328	1.3336	1.3300	1.3265	1.3334
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7676	7.7635	7.7648	7.7642	7.7656
INDIA	RUPEE	51.0300	50.6600	50.9700	51.3800	50.8900
JAPAN	YEN	82.8400	83.1500	82.7400	82.2800	82.4100
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0730	3.0555	3.0630	3.0630	3.0605
MEXICO	PESO	12.6808	12.6578	12.8014	12.8533	12.8115
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8209	0.8206	0.8177	0.8173	0.8200
NORWAY	KRONE	5.6901	5.6979	5.7509	5.7603	5.7001
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2570	1.2562	1.2584	1.2613	1.2573
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	7.5950	7.5971	7.6929	7.7454	7.6585
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1133.3500	1134.4000	1136.3000	1139.7500	1131.4000
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	129.9000	129.5000	129.0000	127.5000	128.1000
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.6810	6.6801	6.6748	6.6799	6.6191
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9041	0.9038	0.9064	0.9084	0.9026
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.6100	29.5500	29.5400	29.5800	29.5000
THAILAND	BAHT	30.6800	30.7100	30.7900	30.9100	30.8200
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.5939	1.5972	1.5855	1.5911	1.5985
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	98.5618	98.5102	98.8183	98.9499	98.6681
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	72.6771	72.7127	72.9147	72.9422	72.7416
3) OITP	JAN97=100	126.4883	126.3182	126.7491	127.0161	126.6443

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