Jim Whitney
Exchange rate trends
"Price of U.S. Dollar" = foreign currency per dollar (in other words, the nominal exchange rate (E));
the graph shows an index for each currency, with January 1998 = 100.0)
    Source: Pacific exchange rate service http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/plot.html

Exchange rate data for April 1, 1999:

  Currency per U.S. dollar   $ appr/depr Curr. per $   $appr/depr
Currency 1/1/99 4/1/99 Actual chnage
1/1/99-4/1/99
Forward rate
7/1/99
Expected change
4/1/99-7/1/99
British pound 0.6087 0.6238 $ appr .6242 $ appr
Canadian dollar 1.5315 1.4987   1.4986  
French franc 5.6213 6.0793   6.0473  
German mark 1.6761 1.8126   1.8031  
Japanese yen 113.30 120.55   119.11