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   Current Release  Foreign Exchange Rates -- G.5A Annual  The table below shows the average rates of exchange in 2012 together
 with comparable figures for other years. Averages are based on daily noon buying
 rates for cable transfers in New York City certified for customs purposes by
 the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
COUNTRY
CURRENCY
2012
2011
2010
2009*AUSTRALIA
DOLLAR
1.0359
1.0332
0.9200
0.7927BRAZIL
REAL
1.9535
1.6723
1.7600
1.9976CANADA
DOLLAR
0.9995
0.9887
1.0298
1.1412CHINA,P.R.
YUAN
6.3093
6.4630
6.7696
6.8307DENMARK
KRONE
5.7922
5.3535
5.6265
5.3574*EMU MEMBERS
EURO
1.2859
1.3931
1.3261
1.3935HONG KONG
DOLLAR
7.7569
7.7841
7.7687
7.7514INDIA
RUPEE
53.37
46.58
45.65
48.33JAPAN
YEN
79.82
79.70
87.78
93.68MALAYSIA
RINGGIT
3.0862
3.0564
3.2175
3.5231MEXICO
PESO
13.154
12.427
12.624
13.498*NEW ZEALAND
DOLLAR
0.8105
0.7920
0.7216
0.6358NORWAY
KRONE
5.8181
5.6022
6.0451
6.2908SINGAPORE
DOLLAR
1.2492
1.2565
1.3629
1.4543SOUTH AFRICA
RAND
8.2014
7.2510
7.3159
8.4117SOUTH KOREA
WON
1126.16
1106.94
1155.74
1274.63SRI LANKA
RUPEE
127.539
110.469
112.990
114.909SWEDEN
KRONA
6.7721
6.4878
7.2053
7.6539SWITZERLAND
FRANC
0.9377
0.8862
1.0432
1.0860TAIWAN
DOLLAR
29.558
29.382
31.497
33.020THAILAND
BAHT
31.055
30.462
31.700
34.310*UNITED KINGDOM
POUND
1.5853
1.6043
1.5452
1.5661VENEZUELA
BOLIVAR
4.29
4.29
4.24
2.14Memo:

UNITED STATES
DOLLAR


1) BROAD
JAN97=100
99.82
97.15
101.82
105.662) MAJOR CURRENCY
MAR73=100
73.50
70.82
75.34
77.653) OITP
JAN97=100
128.28
125.76
130.37
135.89 This release is available online at http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g5a.                        
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 200,5), pp. 1-8 (http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin2005/winter05_index.pdf). Weights for the major currencies index and the other important trading partners (OITP) index are derived from the broad index weights. The source for exchange rates not listed in the table above but used in the calculation of the broad and OITP indexes is Bloomberg.                                     
*  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.                                          
For information about your subscription to this release or about receiving it in document form, please call publication services at Federal Reserve Board at (202) 452-3244.                                              
The euro is reported in place of the individual euro-area curriencies. These currency rates can be derived from the 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
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