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EXCHANGE RATES
Trade Weighted index, (from Table 8.6) - May 1970 = 100.0
Exchange Rates(a) |
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Period | United States Dollar | United Kingdom Pound | Euro(b) | Japanese Yen | Special Drawing Right | Trade Weighted Index(c) | |
Annual per ($A) | |
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2005-06 | 0.7474 | 0.4205 | 0.6143 | 85.90 | 0.5147 | 63.3 | |
2006-07 | 0.7863 | 0.4066 | 0.6018 | 93.21 | 0.5251 | 64.8 | |
2007-08 | 0.8968 | 0.4479 | 0.6099 | 98.63 | 0.5664 | 69.7 | |
Monthly per ($A) | |
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2007-2008 | | | | | | | |
| September | 0.8464 | 0.4196 | 0.6088 | 97.34 | 0.5485 | 67.7 | |
| October | 0.8984 | 0.4397 | 0.6316 | 104.04 | 0.5766 | 71.0 | |
| November | 0.8987 | 0.4335 | 0.6121 | 99.88 | 0.5680 | 70.0 | |
| December | 0.8726 | 0.4314 | 0.5987 | 97.88 | 0.5535 | 68.2 | |
| January | 0.8815 | 0.4479 | 0.5993 | 95.16 | 0.5567 | 68.2 | |
| February | 0.9128 | 0.4647 | 0.6192 | 97.84 | 0.5759 | 70.2 | |
| March | 0.9260 | 0.4622 | 0.5964 | 93.36 | 0.5679 | 69.8 | |
| April | 0.9298 | 0.4695 | 0.5899 | 95.30 | 0.5678 | 70.0 | |
| May | 0.9491 | 0.4828 | 0.6098 | 98.90 | 0.5845 | 72.2 | |
| June | 0.9508 | 0.4840 | 0.6116 | 101.75 | 0.5882 | 72.8 | |
2008-2009 | | | | | | | |
| July | 0.9625 | 0.4840 | 0.6102 | 102.71 | 0.5898 | 73.3 | |
| August | 0.8810 | 0.4668 | 0.5890 | 96.33 | 0.5555 | 68.6 | |
| September | 0.8205 | 0.4558 | 0.5700 | 87.49 | 0.5271 | 64.9 | |
| October | 0.6894 | 0.4070 | 0.5173 | 69.20 | 0.4542 | 56.1 | |
| November | 0.6557 | 0.4279 | 0.5155 | 63.55 | 0.4421 | 54.4 | |
Percentage change from previous month | |
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2007-2008 | | | | | | | |
| March | 1.4 | -0.5 | -3.7 | -4.6 | -1.4 | -0.6 | |
| April | 0.4 | 1.6 | -1.1 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 0.3 | |
| May | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.1 | |
| June | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.8 | |
2008-2009 | | | | | | | |
| July | 1.2 | 0.0 | -0.2 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.7 | |
| August | -8.5 | -3.6 | -3.5 | -6.2 | -5.8 | -6.4 | |
| September | -6.9 | -2.4 | -3.2 | -9.2 | -5.1 | -5.4 | |
| October | -16.0 | -10.7 | -9.2 | -20.9 | -13.8 | -13.6 | |
| November | -4.9 | 5.1 | -0.3 | -8.2 | -2.7 | -3.0 | |
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(a) Rates are period average exchange rates. |
(b) On January 1, 1999 eleven European Union nations launched the Euro, a single currency giving control of interest rate and exchange rate policy to the European Central Bank. The Euro was immediately available for electronic financial and business transactions, but Euro coins and notes were not issued to the general public until January 2002.The participating nations are Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. Greece adopted the Euro on 1 January 2001 and Britain, Denmark and Sweden chose not to adopt the Euro. |
(c) May 1970 = 100.0 |
Source: International Trade in Goods and Services, Australia, (cat. no. 5368.0) |
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