The FED is from now on, only going to report the exchange rates ONCE a week for the daily data. So to keep tabs on a day to day basis as to what the FED is up to in the exchange rate markets is now going to get harder to do. So now we have "NO END OF DAY DATA ANYMORE" on exchange rates, and will have to wait until the following Monday to get the prior weeks daily end of day data.

" Effective January 1, 2009, the Federal Reserve Board is discontinuing publication of the H.10 Daily Update, which provides U.S. dollar exchange rates against other currencies certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and summary measures of the foreign exchange value of the dollar.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York also has issued notification that it will discontinue publication of these foreign exchange rates on its web site.

The Federal Reserve Board will still make the certified exchange rates available. Effective January 5, 2009, the Board will publish the daily exchange rate data in a weekly version of the H.10 release, re-instituting the weekly publication, which had been discontinued in May 2006. The webpage that links to historical data from the H.10 release will also be updated once per week to pick up the daily data from the previous week."

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Just one more little attack on the data available to individuals. No more M#, exchange rated delayed, OE delayed, OE reported in “categories” rather than naming actual large holders, naked shorts not identified separately from delivered shorts.

Things don’t seem to be getting better, they are getting worse. Tighten you grip on your physical!