Exhibit 99.1
SELECTED EXCHANGE RATE DATA
In this document, currency amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars or Australian dollars. The following tables set forth, for the periods indicated, the period-end, average, high and low noon buying rates as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for Australian dollars per US$1.00, and Canadian dollars per US$1.00, based on the noon buying rate expressed in U.S. dollars per Australian dollar or U.S. dollars per Canadian dollars, as the case may be.
Period-end Rate (1) | Average Rate (2) | High | Low | |||||||||
Recent Monthly Data | ||||||||||||
Australian dollar/U.S. dollar(3) | ||||||||||||
April 2002 (through April 11) | A$ | 1.8720 | A$ | 1.8825 | A$ | 1.8975 | A$ | 1.8702 | ||||
March 2002 | 1.8751 | 1.9026 | 1.9316 | 1.8791 | ||||||||
February 2002 | 1.9354 | 1.9505 | 1.9763 | 1.9316 | ||||||||
January 2002 | 1.9716 | 1.9342 | 1.9763 | 1.9091 | ||||||||
December 2001 | 1.9543 | 1.9463 | 1.9814 | 1.9227 | ||||||||
November 2001 | 1.9220 | 1.9361 | 1.9701 | 1.9168 | ||||||||
October 2001 | 1.9881 | 1.9833 | 2.0313 | 1.9459 | ||||||||
September 2001 | 2.0218 | 1.9952 | 2.0657 | 1.9120 | ||||||||
August 2001 | 1.8950 | 1.9062 | 1.9596 | 1.8650 | ||||||||
July 2001 | 1.9685 | 1.9650 | 1.9810 | 1.9372 | ||||||||
June 2001 | 1.9608 | 1.9305 | 1.9755 | 1.8954 | ||||||||
May 2001 | 1.9732 | 1.9234 | 1.9732 | 1.8904 | ||||||||
April 2001 | 1.9623 | 1.9936 | 2.0713 | 1.9312 | ||||||||
March 2001 | 2.0488 | 1.9877 | 2.0488 | 1.8896 | ||||||||
February 2001 | 1.9055 | 1.8734 | 1.9183 | 1.8051 | ||||||||
January 2001 | 1.8248 | 1.8012 | 1.8409 | 1.7507 | ||||||||
Interim Period Data | ||||||||||||
Australian dollar/U.S. dollar(3) | ||||||||||||
Six Months ended December 31, 2001 | A$ | 1.9543 | A$ | 1.9527 | A$ | 2.0657 | A$ | 1.8650 | ||||
Annual Data | ||||||||||||
Australian dollar/U.S. dollar(2) | ||||||||||||
2001 | A$ | 1.9543 | A$ | 1.9342 | A$ | 2.0713 | A$ | 1.7507 | ||||
2000 | 1.7986 | 1.7197 | 1.9562 | 1.4954 | ||||||||
1999 | 1.5244 | 1.5494 | 1.6184 | 1.4899 | ||||||||
1998 | 1.6332 | 1.5896 | 1.8018 | 1.4560 | ||||||||
1997 | 1.5349 | 1.3446 | 1.5408 | 1.2534 | ||||||||
1996 | 1.2588 | 1.2775 | 1.3665 | 1.2225 | ||||||||
Recent Monthly Data | ||||||||||||
Canadian dollar/U.S. dollar | ||||||||||||
April 2002 (through April 11) | C$ | 1.5879 | C$ | 1.5936 | C$ | 1.5995 | C$ | 1.5879 | ||||
March 2002 | 1.5958 | 1.5877 | 1.5958 | 1.5761 | ||||||||
February 2002 | 1.6049 | 1.5961 | 1.6112 | 1.5885 | ||||||||
January 2002 | 1.5915 | 1.5997 | 1.6128 | 1.5899 | ||||||||
December 2001 | 1.5925 | 1.5788 | 1.5990 | 1.5635 | ||||||||
November 2001 | 1.5717 | 1.5922 | 1.6023 | 1.5717 | ||||||||
October 2001 | 1.5905 | 1.5717 | 1.5905 | 1.5582 | ||||||||
September 2001 | 1.5797 | 1.5686 | 1.5797 | 1.5535 | ||||||||
August 2001 | 1.5478 | 1.5399 | 1.5490 | 1.5275 | ||||||||
July 2001 | 1.5310 | 1.5308 | 1.5450 | 1.5102 | ||||||||
June 2001 | 1.5175 | 1.5245 | 1.5347 | 1.5142 | ||||||||
May 2001 | 1.5461 | 1.5411 | 1.5541 | 1.5310 | ||||||||
April 2001 | 1.5360 | 1.5578 | 1.5790 | 1.5360 | ||||||||
March 2001 | 1.5784 | 1.5587 | 1.5784 | 1.5388 | ||||||||
February 2001 | 1.5320 | 1.5216 | 1.5399 | 1.4933 | ||||||||
January 2001 | 1.4995 | 1.5032 | 1.5162 | 1.4944 | ||||||||
Interim Period Data | ||||||||||||
Canadian dollar/U.S. dollar | ||||||||||||
Nine Months ended September 30, 2001 | C$ | 1.5797 | C$ | 1.5378 | C$ | 1.5797 | C$ | 1.4933 | ||||
Annual Data | ||||||||||||
Canadian dollar/US dollars(2) | ||||||||||||
2001 | C$ | 1.5925 | C$ | 1.5485 | C$ | 1.6023 | C$ | 1.4933 | ||||
2000 | 1.4995 | 1.4855 | 1.5600 | 1.4350 | ||||||||
1999 | 1.4440 | 1.4858 | 1.5302 | 1.4440 | ||||||||
1998 | 1.5375 | 1.4836 | 1.5770 | 1.4075 | ||||||||
1997 | 1.4288 | 1.3850 | 1.4398 | 1.3357 | ||||||||
1996 | 1.3697 | 1.3638 | 1.3822 | 1.3310 |
(1) | The period-end rate is the noon buying rate on the last business day of the applicable period. |
(2) | The average of the noon buying rates for Australian dollars or Canadian dollars, as the case may be, is calculated by taking the simple average of the daily noon buying rates, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, over the relevant period. |
(3) | Originally published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as U.S. dollar/Australian dollar and presented above as Australian dollar/U.S. dollar. |