Forex rates .................

Effective January 1, 2009, the Federal Reserve Board is discontinuing publication of the H.10 Daily Update, which provides U.S. dollar exchange rates against other currencies certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and summary measures of the foreign exchange value of the dollar. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York also has issued notification that it will discontinue publication of these foreign exchange rates on its web site.
The Federal Reserve Board will still make the certified exchange rates available. Effective January 5, 2009, the Board will publish the daily exchange rate data in a weekly version of the H.10 release, reinstituting the weekly publication, which had been discontinued in May 2006. The webpage that links to historical data from the H.10 release will also be updated once per week to pick up the daily data from the previous week.

Historical Data

The following exchange rates are certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for customs purposes as required by section 522 of the amended Tariff Act of 1930. These rates are also those required by the SEC for the integrated disclosure system for foreign private issuers. The information is based on data collected by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from a sample of market participants.

The data are noon buying rates in New York for cable transfers payable in foreign currencies.

Please note: Based on information we received from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, revisions were applied in October 2004 to the exchange rate of the dollar against both the Hong Kong Dollar and the Chinese Yuan for several days between 1999 and 2003. Please refer to the following link for a list of these days and for the size of the revisions: http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/fxrates/revisions.html.
1990-99 | Through 1989

Foreign Exchange Rates, 2000 to Present
Country Monetary unit
Australia
ASCII Screen Reader Dollar
Brazil
ASCII Screen Reader Real
Canada
ASCII Screen Reader Dollar
China, P.R.
ASCII Screen Reader Yuan
Denmark
ASCII Screen Reader Krone
EMU member countries
ASCII Screen Reader Euro
Greece
ASCII Screen Reader Drachma
Hong Kong
ASCII Screen Reader Dollar
India
ASCII Screen Reader Rupee
Japan
ASCII Screen Reader Yen
Malaysia
ASCII Screen Reader Ringgit
Mexico
ASCII Screen Reader Peso
New Zealand
ASCII Screen Reader Dollar
Norway
ASCII Screen Reader Krone
Singapore
ASCII Screen Reader Dollar
South Africa
ASCII Screen Reader Rand
South Korea
ASCII Screen Reader Won
Sri Lanka
ASCII Screen Reader Rupee
Sweden
ASCII Screen Reader Krona
Switzerland
ASCII Screen Reader Franc
Taiwan
ASCII Screen Reader Dollar
Thailand
ASCII Screen Reader Baht
United Kingdom
ASCII Screen Reader Pound
Venezuela
ASCII Screen Reader Bolivar

Note: Upon the introduction of the euro on January 1, 1999, we discontinued posting dollar exchange rates against the ecu and the currencies of the eleven countries participating at that time in the European Economic and Monetary Union (that is, the Austrian schilling, Belgian and Luxembourg francs, Finnish markka, French franc, German mark, Irish pound, Italian lira, Netherlands guilder, Portuguese escudo, and Spanish peseta). Upon the adoption of the euro by Greece on January 1, 2001, we discontinued posting the exchange value of the dollar against the Greek drachma.

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