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H.10(512) May 17, 2002
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 17, 2002
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is advised that the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York has certified for customs purposes the following noon buying rates in
New York City for cable transfers payable in foreign currencies:
(Rates in currency units per U.S. dollar except as noted)
MONETARY
COUNTRY UNIT May. 13 May. 14 May. 15 May. 16 May. 17
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.5460 0.5462 0.5480 0.5492 0.5522
BRAZIL REAL 2.4910 2.5160 2.5030 2.4930 2.4770
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5585 1.5590 1.5563 1.5550 1.5420
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2769 8.2770 8.2769 8.2768 8.2769
DENMARK KRONE 8.1680 8.2410 8.1945 8.1760 8.0780
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.9107 0.9022 0.9074 0.9105 0.9206
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7992 7.7993 7.7992 7.7990 7.7990
INDIA RUPEE 49.03 49.02 49.04 49.05 49.04
JAPAN YEN 127.69 128.66 127.92 128.19 126.03
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.489 9.525 9.455 9.490 9.479
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4551 0.4554 0.4575 0.4612 0.4635
NORWAY KRONE 8.2870 8.3650 8.3230 8.2940 8.2020
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.8029 1.8080 1.8055 1.8060 1.7967
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 10.1500 10.1279 10.2600 10.1750 10.0600
SOUTH KOREA WON 1277.40 1279.30 1277.50 1269.80 1261.60
SRI LANKA RUPEE 96.250 96.250 96.350 96.400 96.400
SWEDEN KRONA 10.2690 10.2520 10.1600 10.1500 10.0170
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.5983 1.6155 1.6054 1.5993 1.5810
TAIWAN DOLLAR 34.550 34.580 34.570 34.540 34.460
THAILAND BAHT 42.830 42.900 42.900 42.890 42.562
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4588 1.4474 1.4558 1.4567 1.4602
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 980.00 1002.26 1001.00 1001.00 1002.00
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 127.92 128.41 127.96 127.87 127.03
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 104.81 105.40 104.93 104.82 103.69
3)OITP JAN97=100 139.91 140.15 139.81 139.77 139.57
This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/H10.
For more information on exchange rate indexes for the U.S. dollar, see "New Summary Measures
of the Foreign Exchange Value of the Dollar," Federal Reserve Bulletin, vol. 84 (October 1998),
pp. 811-18 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/). 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 to the trade weights and dollar indexes took effect
with the January 7, 2002, release of this report.
* 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
= 5.94573 FINNISH MARKKAS
= 6.55957 FRENCH FRANCS
= 1.95583 GERMAN MARKS
= .787564 IRISH POUNDS
= 1936.27 ITALIAN LIRE
= 40.3399 LUXEMBOURG FRANCS
= 2.20371 NETHERLANDS GUILDERS
= 200.482 PORTUGUESE ESCUDOS
= 166.386 SPANISH PESETAS
= 340.750 GREEK DRACHMAS
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