Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10

Current Release

Release Date: October 29, 2012

Foreign Exchange Rates -- H.10 Weekly

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

COUNTRY	CURRENCY	Oct. 22	Oct. 23	Oct. 24	Oct. 25	Oct. 26
*AUSTRALIA	DOLLAR	1.0318	1.0249	1.0335	1.0349	1.0358
BRAZIL	REAL	2.0240	2.0284	2.0267	2.0254	2.0250
CANADA	DOLLAR	0.9938	0.9934	0.9945	0.9942	0.9990
CHINA, P.R.	YUAN	6.2543	6.2478	6.2478	6.2416	6.2480
DENMARK	KRONE	5.7100	5.7493	5.7615	5.7561	5.7647
*EMU MEMBERS	EURO	1.3063	1.2971	1.2946	1.2958	1.2938
HONG KONG	DOLLAR	7.7499	7.7500	7.7500	7.7503	7.7501
INDIA	RUPEE	53.5100	53.7200	53.7300	53.5500	53.5500
JAPAN	YEN	79.8400	79.7900	79.8200	80.0400	79.6300
MALAYSIA	RINGGIT	3.0510	3.0555	3.0570	3.0380	3.0380
MEXICO	PESO	12.8594	12.9810	12.9997	12.9815	13.0198
*NEW ZEALAND	DOLLAR	0.8176	0.8115	0.8153	0.8209	0.8226
NORWAY	KRONE	5.6701	5.7290	5.7584	5.7672	5.7616
SINGAPORE	DOLLAR	1.2214	1.2255	1.2227	1.2202	1.2208
SOUTH AFRICA	RAND	8.6229	8.7801	8.7805	8.7193	8.6604
SOUTH KOREA	WON	1103.9800	1103.1000	1103.1200	1098.0000	1097.0300
SRI LANKA	RUPEE	129.5500	129.8000	130.0500	129.9000	129.7000
SWEDEN	KRONA	6.5890	6.6490	6.6993	6.7023	6.7014
SWITZERLAND	FRANC	0.9263	0.9328	0.9342	0.9336	0.9348
TAIWAN	DOLLAR	29.2200	29.3100	29.2800	29.2200	29.2600
THAILAND	BAHT	30.7000	30.7600	30.7200	30.6700	30.6900
*UNITED KINGDOM	POUND	1.6028	1.5932	1.6015	1.6119	1.6098
VENEZUELA	BOLIVAR	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893	4.2893
Memo:
UNITED STATES	DOLLAR
1) BROAD	JAN97=100	98.9341	99.2341	99.2746	99.1588	99.2780
2) MAJOR CURRENCY	MAR73=100	72.8106	73.0690	73.1150	73.0752	73.1676
3) OITP	JAN97=100	127.1605	127.4943	127.5241	127.3130	127.4598

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