Wall Street Journal Currency Exchange Rates Historical (2024)

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Where can I find historical exchange rate data? ›

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Historical exchange rate. An accounting term that refers to the exchange rate in effect at the time an asset or liability is acquired.

The DXY decreased 0.0344 or 0.03% to 101.6944 on Monday September 2 from 101.7288 in the previous trading session. Historically, the United States Dollar reached an all time high of 164.72 in February of 1985. United States Dollar - data, forecasts, historical chart - was last updated on September 2 of 2024.

Federal Reserve Board - Foreign Exchange Rates - H. 10 - Country Data.

Xe Currency Charts

With this convenient tool you can review market history and analyse rate trends for any currency pair. All charts are interactive, use mid-market rates, and are available for up to a 10-year time period. To see a currency chart, select your two currencies, choose a time frame, and click to view.

The highest-valued currency in the world is the Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD). Since it was first introduced in 1960, the Kuwaiti dinar has consistently ranked as the world's most valuable currency.

The index dropped to less than 118 as recently as July 2023 before reaching a 2023 peak of more than 124.00 in late October 2023. The dollar, as measured in the index, again fell below 120 in December 2023 but hovered in the 125 range by mid-2024, representing another dollar rally.

1. Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD) The Kuwaiti dinar is the strongest currency in the world with a single Kuwaiti dinar buying $3.25 US dollars (or, put another way, one US dollar equals 0.31 Kuwaiti dinars). Kuwait is located between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, earning much of its wealth from being a leading global exporter of oil.

Mondays often experience the lowest number of trading in foreign exchange market. Therefore, you may expect the least fluctuation in price. Friday has a definite effect which is called the summary effect. There are many traders who close their positions at the end of the week.

Do you pay taxes on currency exchange? ›

Regardless of where you live, keeping savings in a currency other than the US dollar can expose you to taxable gains or losses when the currency is converted to US dollars.

You can generally get exchange rates from banks and U.S. Embassies. If your functional currency is not the U.S. dollar, make all income tax determinations in your functional currency.

Go to Treasury Bill, Note, and Bond Auction History. Go to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and click on Economic Research or Data. Go to Interest Rates, from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - FRED.

To get historical exchange rates, you can use the STOCKHISTORY function. You can use this function to get the exchange rate for a certain period. Here is a sample formula to get historical exchange rates: =STOCKHISTORY(“USD/GBP”,DATE(2019,07,24),,,0,1).

What exactly are the rates shown on XE or Google? The rates provided in XE's free information services are mid-market rates from global currency markets. Likewise, the data for Google's currency convertor is provided by Morningstar, a US based global provider of financial data.