Dollar Index: Major Currencies (weighted by goods trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily
This series is part of the dataset: US dollar exchange rates (FED Board)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to data released by the Fed Board, the legacy Dollar Index for major currencies (a NEER computed by weighting currencies by goods trade only) stood at 90.82 on 31 December 2019, compared to 91.14 on 30 December 2019. This marks a decrease of 0.35 percent.
Sample. This daily time series has 11,834 data points overall. The period covered by the series goes from January 1973 to December 2019.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: the effective exchange rate reached its highest level of 148.12 on 25 February 1985; it reached its minimum of 68.01 on 2 May 2011; it had an average value of 94.09.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units of foreign currency received in exchange for 1 US dollar |
|---|---|
| 2019-12-27 | 91.4593 |
| 2019-12-30 | 91.1403 |
| 2019-12-31 | 90.8221 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Dollar Index: Major Currencies (weighted by goods trade; nominal) |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Price |
| Data type | Effective exchange rate |
| Deflation method | Nominal |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Rescaling | Index |
| Frequency | Daily |
| Unit | Units of foreign currency received in exchange for 1 US dollar |
| Source | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
| Source type | Central bank |
| Data licence | Licence to copy and distribute without permission |
| Measure type | Level |
Series in the same data set: Single currencies
Series in the same data set: Effective exchange rates
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dollar Index: Broad (all major US trading partners; weighted by goods and services trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily | 4930 | 2006-01-02 | 2025-08-29 |
| Dollar Index: Advanced Foreign Economies (weighted by goods and services trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily | 4930 | 2006-01-02 | 2025-08-29 |
| Dollar Index: Emerging Market Economies (weighted by goods and services trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily | 4930 | 2006-01-02 | 2025-08-29 |
| Dollar Index: Broad (weighted by goods trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily | 6328 | 1995-01-04 | 2019-12-31 |
| Dollar Index: Major Currencies (weighted by goods trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily | 11834 | 1973-01-02 | 2019-12-31 |
| Dollar Index: Other Important Trading Partners (weighted by goods trade; nominal) - United States - FED Board - Daily | 6326 | 1995-01-04 | 2019-12-31 |