Check Currency Rates on Yahoo Finance

Using Yahoo Finance, you can view currency symbols, exchange rates, charts indicating the rise and fall of rates over time and more. Unlike some other sites on the Web, Yahoo Finance offers this and numerous other services for free. It's quick and easy to check currency rates on Yahoo Finance. You don't need a Yahoo account to check currency rates.

Check Currency Rates on Yahoo

Go to the Yahoo Finance home page (see Resources below).

Choose the 'Investing' link from the navigation tabs and use the pull-down menu to select the 'Currency' link.

Scroll the page to see the Major Currency Cross Rates box. Here you will see a grid that compares the rates of major currencies to one another.

Click on the text link that corresponds to one of the currencies to bring up a more detailed page on that currency. You should see a page that gives you information on recent trading in that currency.

Look for the 'Download Data' link on the currency details page if you want to download data from the page into a spreadsheet.

View the chart on the currency details page showing historical currency rates for the currency in which you're interested. Click on the links in the chart section of the page to bring up a chart for a specific time frame (e.g., a year).

Use the Currency Converter Tool on Yahoo Finance

Go to the Yahoo home page (see Resources below).

Click on the 'Finance' link in the list of Yahoo services on the Yahoo home page.

Click on 'Currency' under the 'Investing' tab on the Yahoo Finance home page.

Select the amount and type of currency from the pull-down menu that you want to convert.

Select the type of currency you want to convert to in the pull-down menu, and then click 'Convert.'

Select the 'Help' link on the page if you want more information on using the Yahoo Finance site (see Resources below).