18 Mar 2009 | 02:31 UTC — New York

Additional ECB foreign exchange rate symbols and history backfill

Commodity: Exchange rates Region: Europe

As announced in February, Platts has started updating the ECB exchange rate symbols and available history (about 80,000 data points) will be backfilled starting March 30th.

In addition, the following symbols have been created in dispatch category FX, in order to backfill the history for the daily exchange rates between the Euro and the already discontinued currencies published by the European Central Bank (ECB).

As soon as the backfills are complete, these symbols will be discontinued.

For more information on this data, go to http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html DISP SYMBOL BATES DEC FREQ CURR UOM DESCRIPTION FX EUCYP00 u 5 DW CYP UNS ECB CyprusPound per Euro FX EUISK00 u 5 DW ISK UNS ECB IcelandKrona per Euro FX EUMTL00 u 5 DW MTL UNS ECB MalteseLira per Euro FX EUROL00 u 5 DW ROL UNS ECB Old RomanLeu per Euro FX EUTRL00 u 5 DW TRL UNS ECB Old TurkishLira per Euro FX EUSKK00 u 5 DW SKK UNS ECB SlovakKrona per Euro FX EUSIT00 u 5 DW SIT UNS ECB SloveniaTolar per Euro

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