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H.10(512) March 23, 2001
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 23, 2001
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 Mar. 19 Mar. 20 Mar. 21 Mar. 22 Mar. 23
*AUSTRALIA DOLLAR 0.4984 0.4997 0.4936 0.4913 0.4963
BRAZIL REAL 2.1710 2.1000 2.1070 2.1460 2.1720
CANADA DOLLAR 1.5698 1.5611 1.5730 1.5742 1.5667
CHINA, P.R. YUAN 8.2772 8.2772 8.2771 8.2768 8.2773
DENMARK KRONE 8.3025 8.2680 8.3175 8.4075 8.3630
*EMU MEMBERS EURO 0.8985 0.9054 0.8970 0.8881 0.8926
HONG KONG DOLLAR 7.7995 7.7996 7.7995 7.7994 7.7998
INDIA RUPEE 46.72 46.71 46.71 46.74 46.72
JAPAN YEN 122.57 122.73 123.62 123.84 122.64
MALAYSIA RINGGIT 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000 3.8000
MEXICO PESO 9.573 9.515 9.535 9.585 9.663
*NEW ZEALAND DOLLAR 0.4180 0.4182 0.4145 0.4137 0.4167
NORWAY KRONE 9.0300 9.0010 9.0605 9.1275 9.0600
SINGAPORE DOLLAR 1.7685 1.7765 1.7855 1.7890 1.7847
SOUTH AFRICA RAND 8.0000 7.9775 7.9950 8.0300 7.9700
SOUTH KOREA WON 1298.00 1297.01 1310.00 1324.00 1310.00
SRI LANKA RUPEE 85.550 85.550 85.750 85.750 85.600
SWEDEN KRONA 10.1950 10.1260 10.2540 10.4300 10.2530
SWITZERLAND FRANC 1.7068 1.6957 1.7085 1.7233 1.7155
TAIWAN DOLLAR 32.800 32.785 32.820 32.920 32.850
THAILAND BAHT 43.890 44.070 44.300 44.447 44.220
*UNITED KINGDOM POUND 1.4237 1.4285 1.4310 1.4223 1.4292
VENEZUELA BOLIVAR 705.66 705.26 705.51 706.25 707.25
MEMO:
UNITED STATES DOLLAR
1)BROAD JAN97=100 126.69 126.26 126.91 127.47 127.06
2)MAJOR CURRENCY MAR73=100 104.95 104.49 105.27 105.78 105.11
3)OITP JAN97=100 135.85 135.54 135.85 136.37 136.47
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 February 5, 2001, 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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