Live US dollar exchange rates against the euro, British pound, and Japanese yen — straight from the Federal Reserve H.10 release. Daily refresh, primary-source citations.
Last reviewed: 2026-05-29
Three numbers, one source. Every value on this page is the most recent daily observation from the Federal Reserve's H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates release, surfaced via the St. Louis Fed's FRED API. The H.10 release goes out around 4:15 PM ET every US business day and is the reference rate used by the US Treasury for valuation, by accountants for translation, and by analysts as a stable anchor against the noise of intraday quotes.
USD/EUR and USD/GBP follow the standard convention of dollars per unit of foreign currency, so the number reads as "how many US dollars one euro (or one pound) buys." The Japanese yen series in H.10 is published as yen per dollar — usually somewhere between 100 and 160 — and we show the inverse next to the card so you can read both directions without doing the math yourself.
Currencies are a relative game. EUR/USD does not move because of what is happening in Europe alone; it moves because of the difference between the European trajectory and the US trajectory. The most useful daily question is not "is the dollar strong" but "is the dollar stronger than yesterday because of US news or because of foreign news." ECB or BoE policy days, NFP days, and CPI days all dominate the tape.
Treat one-day moves as noise unless they break recent ranges by more than a percent. For investing and budgeting decisions, the 30-day moving average and the year-over-year change are usually the right horizons. The yen has been the most volatile of the three since 2022 because of the Bank of Japan's yield curve control unwind.
If you hold international ETFs, plan to retire abroad, get paid in a non-USD currency, or run a business that imports or exports, FX moves directly into your spending power. A 10% USD rally against the yen lowers the dollar value of a Japan-listed equity position by 10% before any stock-price move. The same rally cuts the cost of a Tokyo vacation. Pair this tracker with the US vs Eurozone GDP comparison and the live rates dashboard to see whether the move is driven by US growth, foreign weakness, or rate differentials.
For developers and quants, the underlying FRED series are also exposed via the CalcFi data API under the same cache contract used to render this page, and the full daily histories are mirrored as CSV on Kaggle for back-testing.
Federal Reserve H.10 → FRED → CalcFi live-data cache → this page. Hourly re-fetch, daily underlying cadence, no transformation other than the on-page JPY inversion. CSV downloads on Kaggle cover the full historical series back to 1999 (EUR) and earlier for GBP and JPY.
All three series come from the Federal Reserve H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates release, surfaced via FRED. USD/EUR is series DEXUSEU, USD/GBP is DEXUSUK, and JPY/USD is DEXJPUS. The H.10 release is published every US business day around 4:15 PM ET.
No. The Federal Reserve H.10 noon buying rates are reference rates published once per business day. Live tradable rates from FX brokers move continuously and include a bid-ask spread. The H.10 rate is the right number for accounting, valuation, and reporting; the broker quote is the right number for actually trading.
That is the convention the Federal Reserve uses in the H.10 release. The JPY series shows how many yen one dollar buys (typically 140-160). We show the inverse on the page so you can see both directions at a glance.
The H.10 release is daily, US business days only. This page re-fetches hourly and serves the most recent observation. If you visit on a weekend or US holiday, the displayed value reflects the previous business day.
Interest rate differentials are the biggest single driver. When US short rates rise relative to ECB, BoE, or BoJ short rates, the dollar tends to strengthen against that currency. Risk-off flows also favor the dollar (and yen). Growth differentials and current-account balances matter on longer horizons.
Sources: FRED DEXUSEU · FRED DEXUSUK · FRED DEXJPUS · Federal Reserve H.10 · Kaggle (EUR) · Kaggle (GBP) · Kaggle (JPY).