Nominal broad dollar index, United States

Overview

Over the last five years the series ranged from 113.4 (September 2021) to 128.8 (January 2025). Since January 2006 the full range is 86.3 (July 2011) to 128.8 (January 2025).

Key facts

Unit: index (as published in H.10). Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. EconoMonitor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Federal Reserve.

The latest reading of 119.2 in September 2026 is below its five-year average of 121.0 and above its ten-year average of 117.6. It is higher than 79% of all 249 readings since January 2006. The rise in September 2026 ended a run in the other direction or a flat reading. Over the last 12 readings, from October 2025 to September 2026, it averaged 119.7, with a high of 121.4 in November 2025 and a low of 117.9 in February 2026. In the last ten years the largest rise from one reading to the next was in March 2020, to 121.0 from 116.7 in February 2020, and the largest fall was in June 2020, to 119.7 from 122.6 in May 2020.

Among the last 9 complete years, the average was highest in 2024, at 122.9, and lowest in 2018, at 112.0.

Trade-weighted value of the US dollar against a broad group of currencies, monthly average.

Nominal broad dollar index is published monthly by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in its H.10 release. It is measured in index (as published in H.10). EconoMonitor holds all 249 readings since January 2006 under the publisher's code JRXWTFB_N.M, keeps earlier values when the publisher revises them, and compares each release with the downloaded file before it is shown.

• Frequency: monthly.
• Unit: index (as published in H.10).
• Release: H.10, published by Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
• Source series code: JRXWTFB_N.M.
• Methodology: how EconoMonitor stores and checks this series.

Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. EconoMonitor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Federal Reserve. Checks for this release: Check A passed, Check B passed.

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