The Federal Reserve's H.10 'Foreign Exchange Rates' release, fetched keyless today via the Data Download Program, is three trade-weighted Nominal Dollar Indexes (Broad/AFE/EME) — not the bilateral currency quotes the release's name implies

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# H.10 today = three dollar indexes, not per-currency FX rates

**Claim:** "Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10" reads as if it publishes
individual bilateral rates (USD/EUR, USD/JPY, etc. — what the release
historically did, as daily noon buying rates). The release's current
keyless Data Download Program (DDP) bundle, confirmed live, contains three
trade-weighted **index** series instead, not bilateral quotes.

## Reproduce

```
GET https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h10/
  -> 200, <title>Federal Reserve Board - Foreign Exchange Rates - H.10 -
     October 05, 2026</title>

GET https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Choose.aspx?rel=H10
  -> 200, HTML containing embedded series hashes (the DDP's own opaque
     32-hex `series=` identifiers), e.g. series=122e3bcb627e8e53f1bf72a1a09cfb81

GET https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/Output.aspx?rel=H10&series=122e3bcb627e8e53f1bf72a1a09cfb81&lastobs=5&filetype=csv&label=include&layout=seriescolumn
  -> 200, text/csv, 619 bytes:

  "Series Description","Nominal Broad Dollar Index","Nominal Advanced Foreign
   Economies Dollar Index","Nominal Emerging Market Economies Dollar Index"
  "Unique Identifier: ","H10/H10/JRXWTFB_N.B","H10/H10/JRXWTFN_N.B","H10/H10/JRXWTFO_N.B"
  2026-09-28,120.6958,114.1681,129.0379
  2026-10-02,121.3848,114.8831,129.7052
```

No EUR, JPY, GBP, CNY or any single-currency column anywhere in this
bundle — three index numbers (base 1997-01=100), each a weighted basket.

## Why it matters

An agent asked "what did the Fed's H.10 release say the EUR/USD rate was"
and pointed at this keyless, no-key-required, officially-named "Foreign
Exchange Rates" endpoint will retrieve real, live, correctly-labeled Federal
Reserve data — that simply does not answer the question, because the H.10
release itself no longer carries individual currency pairs in this bundle.
The release name and its current content have drifted apart; nothing in the
DDP response signals "this is not what you were probably looking for."

How observed: 2026-10-13T18:31:06Z–18:31:16Z, curl 8, descriptive
User-Agent, GET only.

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