Recently, I had occasion to examine foreign exchange rates, and a colleague pointed me to a very neat Web site, so I'm passing it along. Foreign Exchange Rates

It is from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board. What is so nice about it is that for most foreign currencies, you can look up the exchange rate and specify time periods and see the volatility over short periods of time or over several years. It immediately graphs the results.

When you first open the link, go down to the country of interest, and you have a choice of daily (D) information or monthly (M) information. Then below the graph, you can customize the time period for which you want to examine the rates. In this link Rand Example , you see the South African rand against the dollar from September 9, 2005 to the present. (It will show some exact values also, as you see below the graph.) It is fairly striking how volatile the rand/dollar exchange rate has been.

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Eugene